Contracts between parties with asymmetrical power often require collective bargaining (regulation, reputation, unions, insurance) to design systems that meet th

Contracts between parties with asymmetrical power often require collective bargaining (regulation, reputation, unions, insurance) to design systems that meet the long-term needs of all participants. Compare the terms of EU-US data sovereignty negotiations, or corporation-corporation data rooms, with corporation-employee agreements. Given the rate of change in surveillance telemetry, AI local/remote analytics, enterprise sysadmin competence, global threat models and "chat control" draft legislation to bypass E2EE confidentiality, it is unlikely that individual humans can negotiate balanced Terms-of-Service/Employment/Citizenship. There are OSS-based systems (QubesOS, OpenXT, Android pKVM nested-virt replacement of TrustZone) which are architecturally compatible with remote management of isolated workloads by mutually-distrusting clouds and enterprises. This is the WFH inverse of cloud "confidential computing". Workload isolation is hard/intractable on pre-CHERI PC hardware that is littered with side channels and legacy complexity, but isolation of mutually-distrusting clouds can be practical with a combination of monitoring and legal agreements. WFH humans can collaborate on OSS code to enforce OSS legal agreements that mediate between employees and corporations. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Incorporated (2017) TV series, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eKEHhSw00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eKEHhSw00 & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series), includes thought experiments on future workplace surveillance. > The series takes place in a dystopian Milwaukee in the year 2074, where many countries have gone bankrupt .. In the absence of effective government, powerful multinational corporations have become de facto governments, controlling areas called Green Zones. The remaining territories are called Red Zones, where governance is weak or non-existent. Wi-Fi 7 Sensing routers (2024) can generate 3D images of human activity through the walls/floor/ceiling of homes and business, profiling human position, movements, breathing, typing, emotion and more, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480760. After standardization by IEEE in consumer routers, which remote parties would be interested in WFH WiFi Sensing Analytics? How could regulators, employers, employees and home-builders respond?