>Up until now, it’s seemed like the privacy community has been almost excited about the idea of these tracking apps. Maybe because it’s a cool academic problem?

>Up until now, it’s seemed like the privacy community has been almost excited about the idea of these tracking apps. Maybe because it’s a cool academic problem? I don’t know. It's because 90% of the computer privacy community is people from the computer security community that like to LARP as if they didn't sell out the privacy ideals they used to hold. Computer security people were always more interested in playing with the tech than more-ethereal concepts like privacy and trust and their roles in society. Add in the fact you can make a lot more money bolting encryption to a data exfiltration vector than leading a principled stand against the surveillance system that uses it. Stir for 20 years, and you have a bunch of people who need to admit to themselves that they're today's authoritarian boomers that love faux-rebellious rhetoric.