It's no secret we've been living in more of a surveillance state than ever before. I often think about how nearly every college class I took during the 2020-2021 school year was recorded and put online for the students who didn't attend Zoom class that day. Every word the professor spoke, every discussion we had, and every right and wrong answer I ever gave were captured and put onto the World Wide Web. I wonder where those videos are today. Did the professor erase them from existence the day the course ended? Did somebody download the lectures and put them on Vimeo? Are they still sitting on someone's hard drive? Those questions are impossible for me to answer. Still, they are emblematic of the fact that in the past five years, conversations that once primarily happened in person are now happening online, where they're much more likely to be recorded and dispersed to other parties. One employee learned this the hard way when their manager accidentally sent them a recording of their 1-on-1.
