The only secure data is secure data. Anything else is insecure in principle, and getting less and less secure in practice, as acquisition, collation, sharing,

The only secure data is secure data. Anything else is insecure in principle, and getting less and less secure in practice, as acquisition, collation, sharing, and leveraging unpermissioned information use becomes cheaper, easier, and more profitable by the day. Cryptography provides a long menu of ways entities can exchange information and interact, without sharing information that is not functionally relevant. Making those capabilities the basis for digital inter-entity trade is the only way we will get real privacy and avoid the massive predatory surveillance-manipulation-for-hire economy from continuing to metastasize. With AI driving the value and opportunity of its leverage against us ever upward. Strict laws might have been a practical solution a couple decades ago when information based services began hyperscaling the surveillance-manipulation economy. It wouldn't be a bad thing now. But those laws seem unlikely, so the technical solution is the only path forward. I don't think people really absorb how much of the value of the economy is parasitically skimmed off by the 2-sided centralized S-M business model. From consumers and ad buyers/producers. The colossal revenues of Google and Facebook to start. And how effectively that is incentivizing and funding continued growth in addictive, manipulative and dominant (through pervasiveness) "personalized" content, that will make things much worse.