Agreed. A lot of the privacy hullaballoo I read on HN feels like tin-foil-hattery. Who cares what kind of app you have tracking your GPS on your phone, when eve

Agreed. A lot of the privacy hullaballoo I read on HN feels like tin-foil-hattery. Who cares what kind of app you have tracking your GPS on your phone, when every surveillance camera in London knows exactly where you have been? If you want real privacy, it has to come from getting the right privacy aware, privacy understanding, people in power. Anything short of that wont make a whit of difference.