&gt; I can&#x27;t hardly imagine that most people posting here would ever consider a job where literally every word or sound that came out of their mouth during their entire working life was recorded.<p>The working life for most hackers is rather privileged, so perhaps most people reading this would not care for such working conditions.<p>However, more and more &quot;blue-collar&quot; jobs are conducted under similar  conditions. 100% surveillance on video. Audio recording. Recording all the calls you take or make in a call centre. Recording when you take bathroom breaks and when you are at your station.<p>Nanny-cams for cleaners, health-care providers and (well of course) child care providers in private homes. It goes on and on, but if you step outside of our cozy little tech community, you find that people are treated just like any other cog in a machine, which means they are instrumented and monitored at all times.