Panoptic
Etymology
From Greek panoptes, "all-seeing": pan- ("all") plus a root tied to sight. The related Panopticon was Jeremy Bentham’s prison design, in which inmates could always potentially be watched from a central point but never knew when. Foucault made that image a metaphor for how visibility itself becomes a form of control.
adjective · /pan-OP-tik/
Involving a vantage point from which everything can potentially be seen.
What it names
The modern feeling of being perpetually observable — cameras, tracking, workplace monitoring, the sense that anything could be recorded.
Example
Open-plan offices have a mildly panoptic effect: you behave differently when your screen faces the room.
Related idea
Surveillance is the act; panoptic describes the architecture of being watchable.