***and people didn’t keep espionage devices (electronic assistants) in their homes.***
I just watched a 1961 TV show from THE OUTER LIMITS, about O.B.I.T. ( Outer Band Individuated Teletracer) in which a computer can trace your every movement.
And today they can, with cell phones, tablets, fitbits, and all other sources of electronic data.
And people pay for the service too!
They don’t understand how their forebears caught wild hogs. First the would put out food. Then some fence. Then more fence. Finally a gate. The pigs would get so used to the free food that they’d tolerate being put in a pen if it happened just slow enough.