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If you have ubiquitous records of your behavior then, in the event of adversarial legal process, you will routinely be compelled to produce a very large subsect
by patio11 10y ago
If you have ubiquitous records of your behavior then, in the event of adversarial legal process, you will routinely be compelled to produce a very large subsection of those records, and you will find that a poorly considered moment N years ago will play very poorly in a courtroom when divorced from every other moment in the last N years.
This isn't a crazy dystopian future; this is the routine practice of law in US corporations. If you start a company, you will be advised to train your employees on how to avoid causing $500k judgments while operating under the assumption of ubiquitous post-hoc surveillance of all written communications.
Of note: utterances which would not have caused your lawyer to say "I recommend against you saying that in writing" when they were originally committed to a spinning platter may not be zero-risk in e.g. five years.