> You're not wrong, but on the other hand has "the market" shown any serious signal that it cares about privacy? Is there a pro-privacy Google out there whose

> You're not wrong, but on the other hand has "the market" shown any serious signal that it cares about privacy? Is there a pro-privacy Google out there whose products languished while Google's succeeded? The Silicon Valley VC network did not fund nor support companies that promoted privacy. I can not think of a single example. Not a single major venture from SV VC network even attempted to innovate the "business model". We can make machines reason now but, alas, a business model that does not depend on eradicating privacy is beyond the reach of the geniuses involved. It is "Impossible"? I think, "undesirable" is more likely. No one is even seriously trying. Point: money behind SV tech giants is not motivated at all to fund the anti-panopticon. The salient, sobering, facts are that all these companies are sitting on a SV foundation that was and remains solidly "national security", "military", and "intelligence". The euphemism used is to mention SV's "old boy network". https://steveblank.com/secret-history/ https://steveblank.com/secret-history/