>I'm quite paranoid about this, yet whenever I speak to people about it either people don't care, or already accept it's happening and inevitable. Most people

>I'm quite paranoid about this, yet whenever I speak to people about it either people don't care, or already accept it's happening and inevitable. Most people have no mental capacity to imagine the consequences of someone misusing their private information until either it happens to them or they see it happening in some specific scenario. What bothers me is that everyone is being carefully conditioned to misplace the blame. Person A meticulously constructs a system designed to screw you over. They willfully neglect its security for years. Then person B comes along, pushes a button and triggers the system. These days 99% of the blame somehow goes towards person B. (Evil Hackers, or that one employee who forgot to install some update, or whatever.) Mass media is totally on-board with this kind of crap. By the way, the same applies to AI "threat". Should we worry about AI overtaking all the world's smart toasters and simultaneously overloading the to cause mass fires? Or should we worry about the fact that those toasters somehow have processors, are Internet-enabled and run shit software? * * * Also, "the battle for privacy" is a bad mental model. There is no single battle you win or loose. It's a gradient. The more information you leak, the worse off you are in the long run.