It's super strange that there's this huge gap of expectation of privacy and lack of social consequences when compared to the past.
Way back when villages and towns were hella smaller, unapproved behavior was nipped on the bud, because people talk and there were less people that you just couldn't disappear into the masses. There were _actual_ real social consequences.
_Technically_ we're just moving back to basics, but the social consequences of the increased awareness should apply to everyone – equally.
Counterpoint:
There was a 95 year old woman in my life who was a Stephen Minister living in a small town. Stephen Ministry is a bit like being a professional listener. You kind of do outreach and be present for people to help them through hard times. She was a widow, in a small town.
She would go to a nursing home with a gentleman from the same town, whose wife had come down with Alzheimer's to the point the wife could not recognize her husband most days and would become highly agitated. The wife did recognize the 95 year old woman, with whom the wife had gone to church for many years. The husband would sit in the other room whilst the 95 year old and his wife talked, and share in what lucid moments the woman he loved (his wife) had left.
The other ladies in the church, on the other hand, found the 95 year old widow's behavior highly scandalous, despite the fact the widow had had no one else in her life, even after her husband passed more than 20 years ago.
Point being, don't romanticize small town life. It can, in it's own way lead to collective psychological pathologies just as rapidly as urban living does. The difference being that there's no such thing as "community therapy" to get an entire village turned around. Religion is about the closest there is, and ecumenical politics is about as bad as academic politics in it's toxicity. People are hell, and we do ourselves a favor by not making it any easier for anyone to constantly keep tabs on anyone.
However, I will admit to a bit of schadenfreude that a tech company executive got caught out by this sort of thing.
Way back when villages and towns were hella smaller, unapproved behavior was nipped on the bud, because people talk and there were less people that you just couldn't disappear into the masses. There were _actual_ real social consequences.
_Technically_ we're just moving back to basics, but the social consequences of the increased awareness should apply to everyone – equally.