If I really gave a damn, had 1000 bucks to blow, and had no life I could go plant hidden microphones, pinhole video cameras, and more in just about every conceivable public place too. If anyone argued or brought me to court - I could demonstrate how this is absolutely no different than everyone &quot;secondhand recording&quot; me in their little snap stories and instagrams which do go online forever. My point is, this is some small potatoes 1980&#x27;s style shit that is nothing compared to NSA Echelon (which I find to be actually a fascinating technology if it weren&#x27;t so malleable to abuse by human nature) If Echelon were an independently operating AI system that had algorithms that identified criminal activity, then used soft paternalism in the form coercing unaware law enforcement personnel into making &quot;chance&quot; encounters with would-be criminals (random traffic stop, or passing them by on the street), the psychology of the criminal would be to stop doing whatever their doing because they feel more watched when they are doing said crime; although the law enforcement agent may never be directly aware of the criminals communications or conduct. I can deal with surveillance all day, no sweat. Totalitarian censorship is my problem, and that doesn&#x27;t appear to be happening stateside.