Assuming everything is live presumes that we should have to care about what others think about any given conduct. Social justice is what this is plain and simple. Rule of law (or the absence thereof) is meaningless in modern society?
I've heard the "eye of Sauron" metaphor in a few podcasts that commentate on the ease of mass surveillance. This has less to do with individual smartphone tracking - individual smartphone users have the power to zero in on certain topics and ideas (viral) relatively instantly since news can travel along a global internet unhindered.
Chinese Social Credit automated aggregation of all citizen smartphone activity feeds is the "rule of Law". We will be economically limited by our inefficient (bad) deeds.
