As in stasi phones, stasi devices, [strike]social[/strike] stasi networks... Everyone snitching on everyone, from self and family to passers-by. Everyone becoming an informal collaborator.
Spy is better. Stasi is a composite from "(Ministry for) State Security". These devices are little corporate spies, they have nothing to do with the State.
Sure in a way it's all part of the power structure that the elites use to run things. In another very meaningful way, they are competing power structures that help balance things away from outright totalitarianism. The distinction is not meaningless by any stretch of the imagination, even it the extent and depth is debatable.
