There really isn't any other option but to persuade enough people to be privacy conscious that we end up with public policy that enforces it. Otherwise, it's g

There really isn't any other option but to persuade enough people to be privacy conscious that we end up with public policy that enforces it. Otherwise, it's gonna be like GMail -- sure, you can run your own mail server, but 80+% of humanity will decide that they can't or have better things to do, and Google will end up with all the email between you and them anyway. You can make your own smart home camera, but 80+% of the world will install Ring or something similar, and that means you will be on their camera footage and therefore your comings and goings will be part of Amazon/SurveillanceCo (absent consistent deployment of effective countermeasures).