> The first is a slippery slope. Actually I mean something closer to shifting baseline [1] in a broader sense. We've just come to accept a vast loss of privacy

> The first is a slippery slope. Actually I mean something closer to shifting baseline [1] in a broader sense. We've just come to accept a vast loss of privacy as surveillance and data gathering has become so cheap, so pervasive, and insidiously hidden, that at this point it is impossible to stop it. The inertia is all rolling downhill at this point. The slippery slope has slipped and slid already, well past what we would have considered acceptable a generation ago. It was unthinkable when I was a kid in the 1980s or a teenager in the 1990s that they would do so much tracking, in meatspace and cyberspace. And you're right that there is no way to stop it, except through laws. The US government is completely asleep at the wheel. Worse, they've been paid off to be asleep at the wheel. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline