The whole point would be to try to ensure that privacy is NOT over. Our privacy is nearly gone, but that doesn't mean we can't fight to get it back. And laws pr

The whole point would be to try to ensure that privacy is NOT over. Our privacy is nearly gone, but that doesn't mean we can't fight to get it back. And laws preventing companies from releasing data are NOT going to help - the only ultimate solution is encryption. And yes, it would be possible to implement it as a P2P social network, but there's a few problems with that: 1. P2P ties you to a particular machine. The whole point of having social networks is that they work on all your devices. 2. I've never been impressed with the performance of P2P applications and I've never seen anything leading me towards a different opinion. I don't want to use a social network where it takes me 30 seconds to bring up someone's profile. 3. P2P is technologically more challenging. I want the average user to benefit from this, not just geeks. These are perhaps surmountable if one could design the next generation of P2P tools, but that drastically increases the scope of the project.