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From an attacker perspective:

If I can get access to these tracking systems full of recorded conversations and video, can I use this information to advance my attack?

Maybe I can even set queries on the collected data, like "mark all conversations about domain admins" or "mark all videos containing a clear view of somebody typing in a password on a terminal".

This also opens up a new trove of espionage. Imagine getting inside info on big investement.

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Yeah, this is a strong counterpoint. Oftentimes companies don't want to know what their employees are doing or saying in private, all of that data is just additional liability. There just isn't a good enough reason. No company is going to fire you because you have bad posture.

This is an important perspective. Surveillance capitalism is so often justified with "as long as they don't misuse the data". No, fuck that. The data should not have been collected in the first place.

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