Digital capabilities continue to expand and grow more influential, and as a result, the digitized ability to monitor and surveil has expanded and grown as well. The tools of this increasingly powerful capacity include Tracking, Biometrics, Facial Recognition, Multiple Inputs and AI-Aided Monitoring. While such capabilities increasingly gain influence and use in China, where monitoring has been embedded inthe culture for decades, the acceptance of these capabilities in the U.S. (so far) seems to represent a challenge to a long tradition of privacy. Yet little pushback has taken place. We have identified several contexts that are giving momentum to the spread of monitoring capabilities: Permeable Borders, the Great Restructuring, the New Autocrats and Digitally Trained Consumers. The advancement and spreading acceptance of monitoring and surveillance in the U.S. is another example of how digital technology is Creating Its Own Reality and challenging traditional ways of operating and thinking.