Further, there wasn’t a giant asymmetry of information. I don’t actually completely agree with the premise, but even taking it at face value, everyone knew wha

Further, there wasn’t a giant asymmetry of information. I don’t actually completely agree with the premise, but even taking it at face value, everyone knew what everyone else is doing. That is very different than some far off entity subtly cataloging everything about you in the background, where you only have a mere notion of the full scope of its existence.