> it's going to be a constant battle against powers Yes. The price of freedom is vigilance. If you are not creating your future, others will create it for you.

> it's going to be a constant battle against powers Yes. The price of freedom is vigilance. If you are not creating your future, others will create it for you. This is true not only for privacy, but every freedom we enjoy. In the last few decades there has been a trend toward more people taking a lot of our comfortable modern lives for granted. Some with a better understanding of the current political landscape have seen the people trying to dismantle the foundations of the freedoms and comfort we enjoy. The enemy is organized and powerful, so the battle seems hopeless. Everyone needs to remember that previous generations had to fight the same powers, and they won. It was hard work, but we only have the many of the freedoms, civil rights, and middle class lifestyle thanks to the previous generations that fought power. We can win the war against privacy, but it will require a lot more solidarity and focus and a lot less infighting. The smart way to win battles has always been to trick your enemy into choosing not to fight. Maintaining power is easy when the enemy gives up the fight or fights among themselves. > the capability to do so is just getting easier and cheaper. Then the technology should be fought (civil war), or its manufacture prohibited (Butlerian Jihad), or even better, put to use in the other direction. The latter may require a lot of creativity. > The only real solution is to have technologically enforced privacy, in ways that can not be blocked legally. Except that doesn't exist except in specific situations. If the political side is ignored, technology doesn't matter because the boot, rubber hose, and rifle can prevent technology from being used. With modern methods of social manipulation (e.g. Sesame Credit), the firearm can be replaced with peer presure and social standing. Both the technological and political battles need to be fought, becaujse they support each other and cannot stand on their own.