There’s no single “correct” latency. It’s not a fixed parameter but a variable tied to the threat model and the economics of surveillance. For low-risk, everyd

There’s no single “correct” latency. It’s not a fixed parameter but a variable tied to the threat model and the economics of surveillance. For low-risk, everyday coordination, minutes might be sufficient. For high-value intelligence, latency needs to be long enough to break the temporal correlation between input and outcome. If monitoring a 24-hour window costs an adversary $X, the goal is to stretch the window until the cost of semantic inference exceeds the value of the information being inferred. Beyond that point, surveillance becomes economically irrational. In that sense, latency functions like a currency: users “spend” time to buy lower observability. How much they’re willing to spend depends entirely on what they’re protecting and from whom.