Many people already give up enough information (by carrying a smartphone) to allow for a simulated world, where their avatar's actions match their real world actions in realtime: phone calls, transactions, inventory, location, physical condition inferred from always-on sensors, connected databases, and natural language processing.

Then a controller could issue useful queries for parallel construction, like "select all avatars who have X in their inventory and who are currently driving in location Y", or how about a bar sting: "select all avatars who purchased more than X drinks at location Y and are driving, but are more than Z distance from their likely destination". Are we to presume that this is not being done? How will society react to the idea of such deep reaching surveillance?