if our lives are going to be pervasively surveilled, is it better we should be surveilled by

(1) private corporations, which at least don't have direct license to coerce us with violence; or

(2) the existing state, whose management is, however imperfectly, somewhat democratic and accountable to the public?

(for readers who live in places where the state can be described as imperfectly but somewhat democratically accountable)

better surveilled by