i hear you and I understand this sounds like privacy or security maximalism. but bear with me for a second ... at some point in the last 100 or 200 years techn

i hear you and I understand this sounds like privacy or security maximalism. but bear with me for a second ... at some point in the last 100 or 200 years technology has become so complex that society has agreed to compartmentalize problem domains into subject matter expertise and we install specialists to work on these problems. you're spot-on saying that the majority can't tell and probably doesn't care. but the majority also isn't as deep in this as most people here. if it's not our job as engineers or as an industry to raise raise alarms when it's justified what chances do we have - or what chances do those have who aren't skilled to ask or answer these questions? Things have become so complex that our reaction is now to no longer question things and instead point to team-XYZ who claim that they are using it successfully (but have they really investigated what they're using or are they just so desperate to turn a blind eye to what's happening?) I'm not willing to die on that hill but am prepared to fight this for long enough until people wake up to the problem. The point is to stall the nomalization of this behavior for long enough - until a sizable portion of specialists/subject matter experts is aware and can no longer be ignored. The #DeleteFacebook movement and people inside Google and Microsoft fighting ICE contracts are an example that pressure maybe doesn't solve the problem but it still is a very effective "spanner in the works" of Surveillance Capitalism.