Now that financial data are compiled and stored digitally, it is cheap, easy, and tempting for the government to cast a wider and wider financial dragnet to build increasingly intrusive computer profiles of citizens.
The government already has computer profiles of citizens.
From strategically situated lookout points (mira?­douros) you can take in these magical panoramas and look down upon villages carved out of the mountains, at least one so isolated it only began to receive TV signals in the late 1980s.