The Conversation (1974) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Marathon Man (1976) Sneakers perhaps. Anyhow, I think you're missing the context of what happened in

The Conversation (1974) Three Days of the Condor (1975) Marathon Man (1976) Sneakers perhaps. Anyhow, I think you're missing the context of what happened in the 60's and 70's that stoked paranoia in the culture and in fiction. 1. CCTIFBI Only because some morally-flexible activists broke into an FBI field office did they uncover COINTELPRO and quoting Chomksy "40% [of FBI work activities] were devoted to political surveillance and the like" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-break-in-1971-come-forward-documents https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/fbi-office-bre... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_Commission_to_Inve... Furthermore, in modern times, there is: - warrantless mass surveillance (NSA) - license plate readers (LPRs) - cellphone tower/position tracking - Ring and other IoT devices recording to cloud providers evidence of technical crimes. All it takes is law-enforcement getting access for something else and digging around with automated tools in data to round up bodies to prosecute. For example, a small child escaping from a bath without clothes in front of an always-recording security webcam is considered child pornography. - No-name webcams and other IoT being hacked or manufacturing backdoored to be used for spying, malware injection, packet sniffing and who knows what else. - As revealed by Snowden, various secret watch lists containing the names of over 2 million Americans.