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by CyberDildonics 742 days ago
surveil yourself

Surveillance is something you do to someone else. If it's yourself you're just keeping records. It's common that proving validity of something involves the records of it's creation. Is registering for copyright surveillance?

data you're expected to turn over to your employer

If you got paid to make something, that would be your employer's data anyway.

Worse still if these keyloggers become normalized, and they'll shift from being "optional" to "professionally expected" to "mandated"

You think a brainstorm about using a blockchain by a hacker news comment is going to suddenly become 'mandated'?

And in several EU countries it's illegal to have surveillance cameras pointed at workers without an exceptional reason

They described logging their own keystrokes and encrypting them to have control over them. It isn't a camera and it isn't controlled by someone else. Also they said in an editor, so it isn't every keystroke, it would only be the keystrokes from programming.