We are well past the need for a massive upheaval in privacy rights, and if this won't come from muscular government intervention, I would not be shocked if hack

We are well past the need for a massive upheaval in privacy rights, and if this won't come from muscular government intervention, I would not be shocked if hacktivists started just destroying vast swaths of data stores, since we already see actors with the capability to do so holding the data for ransom instead. Such an attack could be more discreet too. The situation is simply out of hand