One detail I found striking was about the effect of that 1996 Financial Times article: > ...this article had a big impact. Soon after many other newspapers sta

One detail I found striking was about the effect of that 1996 Financial Times article: > ...this article had a big impact. Soon after many other newspapers started looking into this, which led to two Federal Trade Commission hearings, and the web industry felt pressured to respond. Feels like we're living in much different times now. There is a lot more noise across our media outlets today, plus the general public seems way more complacent about privacy issues as a whole. Would an equivalent impact be possible in today's world based off of one well written article? Certainly on some topics yes, but when it comes to user privacy?