"It’s fucking intrusive," Colson growled. "In theory, it could decide you’re emotionally unstable and tell your boss. If you vary too much from your previous behaviour, it might lock you out of your own files. There’s potential for abuse, Annie, and you know it. The alcohol anklet people could use it to say you’re backsliding. And those probation futurecrime fuckers, they’d love it: if your connectome gets too much like the one you had when you were a sinner, off to jail you go! And sooner or later, someone’s going to say it can detect defections and whistle-blowers before they can decide what they’re going to do themselves. Maybe you see something, I don’t know, you’re an oil exec and you see the results of a spill. The system might lock you out for insufficient faith in the corporate ethos. Loyalty-based access."