Going Viral?

Bluetooth tracking - Isle of Wight?
All movements captured – is that right?
Whom we meet and where we go
Should our lives be a live show?

So maybe that is what they mean
By «Going Viral» - a bad dream!
All Close Encounters of this kind
Make a film script* seem benign.

When we switch on mobile phone
We're suddenly - no more - alone
Essential to our daily lives
Its hidden app upon us spies...

Imagine the Cold War with these!
The KGB would shoot the breeze
And trace down traitors in a trice
A poker game, without the dice ...

With high-tech gizmos near our face
Who will step outside his place?
We're on thin ice, faced with more fear
It seems that 'App-y' days are here...

(c) Poet in the woods 2020

* 1977 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Directed by Steven Spielberg