The individual perceives no negative effects from their data being sold, and this is I think the main reason why people don't care. And this will never change,

The individual perceives no negative effects from their data being sold, and this is I think the main reason why people don't care. And this will never change, so if we leave it up to individual choice, then the data will be harvested and sold. The other big thing is that not knowing things about people makes it harder to control them. So, data is useful for the government as well, and commercially gathered data is a subpoena away from them to access. So right now, privacy is a hard sell. The individuals don't like it, because it makes thing inconvenient* or inaccessible*. It's a hard sell for companies, because they can turn it into income by selling or using it for advertising themselves. And it's a hard sell for the governments as well, because private people are harder to control. * I mean inconvenience like when migrating an E2E encrypted messaging app from device to device, and no way to share message history, because of the encryption. * Inaccessible, as in applications refusing to work if not given specific permissions