Because the name "Big Brother" was already taken

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Candid Camera and all the hidden camera shoes that came after it were always a little creepy when you think about them secretly recording people without their prior consent. That's pretty much the same thing that the new surveillance comedy show from Amazon will be as well, except this time the cameras will be everywhere, and it will give people yet another reason to participate in a surveillance state that feeds data directly to police without permission.

This isn't even it's final form

from here

It's bad enough when individual neighbors have surveillance gear pointed every which way, it's so much worse when they're all linked together without anyone's consent.

Maybe we should ask Alexa

from here

The number of things they're sticking Alexa into is getting a bit creepy, if you ask me.

I guess other people must find it creepy too, since there's now a proposal to label everything that has mics or cameras in them.