> paranoid secrecy

Do you work in the industry or have you simply been conditioned to parrot the notion that anyone concerned with being spied upon is crazy?

Are you referring to the MIT studies using wifi signals to track people through walls? https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/

I'm pretty sure I first read about that on HN, and was immediately reminded of the govt plan to cover the country in wireless transmitters.

Do these wealthy people you speak of live in studio apartments?

They live in modestly sized apartments that are typical of urban an urban lifestyle, not the giant isolated rural plots of land that half this thread is insisting are necessary to preserve one’s sanity because they can’t differentiate between personal preference and fundamental aspects of the human condition.