>I agree that it's a race to the bottom but not that regulation is a way out. There are too many services employing too many engineers, and furthermore governme

>I agree that it's a race to the bottom but not that regulation is a way out. There are too many services employing too many engineers, and furthermore governments benefit from this massive surveillance. They pay for the results, and the direction in government today is towards less privacy, not more. In Norway we have an independent administrative body of the government called Datatilsynet, known in English as The Norwegian Data Protection Authority. Wikipedia has a very short article about it in English [1] and a longer article in Norwegian [2]. For a translation of the Norwegian article, see [3]. Notably, the King and the Ministry may not instruct or reverse Datatilsynet's exercise of authority in the individual case according to law. So while some parts of a government might want to maximize data collection and surveillance, it is still possible to have other bodies of the government work to protect the privacy of its citizens. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Data_Protection_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Data_Protection_Auth... [2]: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datatilsynet_(Norge) https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datatilsynet_(Norge) [3]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fno.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDatatilsynet_%28Norge%29&edit-text=&act=url https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...