I understand the difference you're describing, and agree with it; consider the difference between the cost of storage and retrieval to the StaSi and to any thre

I understand the difference you're describing, and agree with it; consider the difference between the cost of storage and retrieval to the StaSi and to any three letter organisation today. (One potential small mitigation: if any surveillance streams had to be public, at least the watching might be mutual?) I had just been considering that maybe we were fortunate enough to live through a local maximum of privacy: people in villages had less, and people in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longhouse cultures much less. (In https://barykin-pin-up.ru/#/i/neudachnoe-svidanie https://barykin-pin-up.ru/#/i/neudachnoe-svidanie the young couple seems to have been hoping to get a little privacy via an afternoon rendezvous, but her neighbourhood is as, or even more, curious than the cat...)