I think many members of the general public are probably not very well informed on the actual risks that arise from these sorts of privacy issues. If you pay att

I think many members of the general public are probably not very well informed on the actual risks that arise from these sorts of privacy issues. If you pay attention to mainstream media coverage of privacy/surveillance issues, you’ll often hear the old “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” trope promoted as if it were actually a reasonable counter argument. Maybe I’m just a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but I have a hard time believing media outlets are capable of giving reasonable coverage to those issues, given their entire revenue model is based upon exploiting mass data gathering in the form of modern ad tech.