Exactly.. If you're so concerned with privacy then don't put a microphone in your home when both of these companies have strong ties to the government. You are being profiled or worse.
I've been through a rough patch (approx one year) with many similar symptoms. At the end it turned out to just be basically stress-induced Hypochondria. I was manifesting all of these myself, and what got me healthy again was to focus on other things, and basically letting go of those anxieties. Easier said than done, but that was all there was to it. Anyways all the best, hope you get it sorted! :)
As always the reason we do not have such ingenuity in the mainstream is that the mainstream is an industry addicted to the easy profits that is essentially big oil. Think of it what you will.
I'm guessing you're one of those lucky ones with a sane manager that values your productivity, nurtures growth by rewarding good work, and keeps a good tab on past accomplishments whilst protecting you when others make unrealistic or untimely demands of you, and intervenes only with actual wisdom rather than nonsensical judgement or belittling comments.
Consider yourself one of the few lucky ones. The rest of us have to deal with some degree of micromanagement, office politics, and other such nonsense on an almost daily basis.
The obtaining of property from another induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.