TLDR: Public officials lose their right to privacy and are subjected to surveillance. Corruption is impossible if they cannot make private deals.

Preface: The American government has been rolling out mass AI surveillance systems with facial recognition much like we've seen in China. There are currently 5,000+ cities in America that are covered, roughly 1/3 of all law enforcement now uses AI cameras. These databases recognize and keep track the movements and behaviors of literally everyone, the systems are incredibly expensive to install and maintain (we foot the bill) and they are often misused or compromised. It's a huge ongoing issue in America that very few people know or care about so it's been growing and expanding over the passed few years and, if not stopped, will eventually become a beast. This got me to thinking about what an ambitious goal they have: to create such a powerful a system to track and predict patterns of half a billion people; and it's possible with enough energy into a data center but would take a lot of energy and a lot of cameras (currently there are 100k cameras by Flock and a partnership that takes footage from everyone's Ring doorbell).

The solution: Flip the system around. It's much easier, much more doable, much less ambitious, much much cheaper, to surveil politicians than it is to surveil everyone else. Public officials lose their right to privacy and are subjected to surveillance. They cannot have a conversation with their wives without everyone citizen hearing it, they cannot take a bathroom break without everyone knowing exactly how long it took, they cannot exchange a nickle without the whole world seeing the receipts, they cannot receive a gift without the everyone knowing exactly what it is and who its from. Corruption requires privacy. Without privacy, corruption is impossible.

In the simplest terms, we have the Private citizen & the Public official. Citizens have a right to privacy, politicians don't.

Can you find a problem with this idea? I still need to think of a name for this political system, has anything like this ever happened in the past?