Totalitarianism is not built in a day. You don't wake up one day to find yourself in dystopia. At the moment the capabilities are being built in bits and piece

Totalitarianism is not built in a day. You don't wake up one day to find yourself in dystopia. At the moment the capabilities are being built in bits and pieces, like the frog being boiled, and once the capabilities are there they will be used and abused. You don't even need imagination to see this, even a basic acquaintance of human nature and history is enough. The current generation of software folks have dropped the ball and sold out completely. There is a feeding frenzy of creepiness, stalking people accompanied with denial, apologism, dilution and posturing. If you are going to question the value of privacy or diminish the danger of surveillance you might as well question democracy and human rights. This is what apologism does, reduces discussion to basic first principles. This is what greed and money does to people, and why regulations and rule of law is required to cement and reiterate the values a society subscribes to.