When someone follows you around constantly, lurking and observing your actions, that's called stalking. And it's illegal. We are to the point where commercial

When someone follows you around constantly, lurking and observing your actions, that's called stalking. And it's illegal. We are to the point where commercial entities and governments are full-on stalkers. And that should be illegal, too. Further, it is immoral. There is a fundamental hypocrisy when people are exhorted to autonomy and personal responsibility -- "by your bootstraps", "entrepreneur", "gig economy", etc. -- at the same time they are, with mass surveillance, being left with none of this, in truth. Your every action monitored, measured, standardized, and compelled to conform. You are left with no agency, save that granted -- left -- to you by the powers that be. And with everything recorded and stored, seemingly indefinitely, you become self-monitoring, self-constraining. Will this be used against me in a year? Five years? Does one slip or oversight last a lifetime? Fy the way, do you see them taking action to swing the cameras, and the monitoring, the other way? Even Obama, with ever and ever more secrets and aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers. The police, who have fought cameras and monitoring for years. NDA's left and right, disparagement suits. On and on and on... And, I've gone on too much, here. Never mind just the philosophy of the matter; look, too, at how it works in practice! Do we all want to spend not just our work hours, but our lives, in virtual cubicles? The post-modern panopticon.