>economic espionage is a scary threat model RE: commercial information Can you suggest any good books on what kind of information a "pragmatic" first world go

>economic espionage is a scary threat model RE: commercial information Can you suggest any good books on what kind of information a "pragmatic" first world government might collect on citizens for blackmail? I'm having a hard time thinking of examples aside from say sexual taboos or things that people find shameful for diverse personal social reasons (e.g. eating habits, media habits and so on). When a citizen isn't engaged in explicitly illegal behavior is it really that easy to threaten someone's life/career in exchange for commercial/political information? The types of social/taboo espionage I mentioned above don't seem broadly applicable enough for a government to really bother with it as a generic model for blackmail.