> The privacy problem at its core is a political one, and it needs a political solution. I'm with you --- my views are pretty much in agreement this, and with

> The privacy problem at its core is a political one, and it needs a political solution. I'm with you --- my views are pretty much in agreement this, and with Schneier in Data and Goliath. However, while legislation and regulation are the only things that will prevent us from full-blown monopolistic dystopia, there are meaningful ways in which technologists can make privacy preserving behaviors easier to adopt on a wide scale. The most obvious example of this is Signal. It wasn't brought about because the government said it had to be built (though they did end up funding it), and not only has it significantly advanced the privacy of instant messaging for millions of people, and moved the Overton window on expectations of encryption, it provided a new open standard (and FOSS reference implementation) for other messaging services to adopt.