Until they are monitored. I never though I did anything that warranted government surveillance, but I found myself in an industry who routinely had their online accounts monitored, devices "tapped", surveillance camera systems monitored, communications monitored (email and phone systems). They simply went to Google, Vonage, and cloud providers and said: "hey company X is under investigation by the EPA, we'll need access to X service, you cannot disclose this to the customer." They have the ability to monitor employees too. Depends on how big the company is, as to how big of a target your actions are.

The reason I couldn't get on a plane 5 years ago without getting a strip search and a groping is the same reason I assume I'm actively monitored by at least one nation state... For what? I wish I knew. I just try to have things that can't be used against me. I keep a physical receipt from any place I can, incase I ever need to prove my whereabouts. The issue is often that when an agency raids your house they take everything and you have to fight to get it back. Meaning they could easily tamper with your ability to defend yourself. You need multiple copies of things in different places. It's also useful to be awake between 4-6 AM on routine incase they try to kick your door in XD

Yeah, that's my takeaway. I got carried away reading some paranoid guidebooks a while back, and here and there from bitcoiner posts, which sorta made me throw up my hands and just settle for vpn and anon name as the lengths I will go to for privacy (a few other small things not worth listing). I think I can do a bit better now, and one nice thing I've gotten from the community on nostr, is I've noticed a slow creep of personal responsibility to try a bit harder return. So that's something