Sure, if there's serious interest in you, there might well be high tech listening devices, lasers watching vibrations on glass windows, bugs, etc. But that's e

Sure, if there's serious interest in you, there might well be high tech listening devices, lasers watching vibrations on glass windows, bugs, etc. But that's expensive, equipment, people in white vans, etc. But what if the government can listen to every whisper in every ear? Dragnet surveillance could serious damage society. If this was available decades ago it might well be used to criminalize things like being gay.