It's a nice thought experiment. I call it ubiquitous surveillance. Anything you say, do, etc. is picked up by cameras, microphones, sensors, etc. and analyzed a

It's a nice thought experiment. I call it ubiquitous surveillance. Anything you say, do, etc. is picked up by cameras, microphones, sensors, etc. and analyzed and archived for the duration of your life. We're a few decades away from that becoming practical to do for the entire population of earth. A few exa bytes of data per person sounds like a lot right now but there are already companies operating at that scale today. A few decades would allow scaling that by few billion times. That's scary if you think in terms of a scary state surveilling its citizens. But as soon as you have multiple parties doing ubiquitous surveillance on each other it gets interesting: counter surveillance becomes a thing. Counter surveillance could be a crucial tool to enforce rules related to e.g. privacy. For example, the act of violating somebody's privacy would be observed by potentially many third parties, some of which might not be friendly. Doing so covertly would get a lot harder and now would have a risk of legal escalation. In fact doing anything covertly would become extremely hard. People will get to watch each other, but not covertly and probably under some very strict and extremely hard to dodge rules.