A few notes, - Technology solutions can't get very far. At some point they will be attacked by legislation at a level that renders them unusable. (e.g. encrypt

A few notes, - Technology solutions can't get very far. At some point they will be attacked by legislation at a level that renders them unusable. (e.g. encryption of such and such becomes illegal) - Technology solutions inevitably create an arms-race so the surveillance state keeps growing bigger and bigger. And also creates the mindset that we can do nothing but to continue looking for better technical solutions. Eventually we forget why we are doing all of this in the first place, when politicians are supposed to be our employees who are supposed to serve us and act on our behalf. - For as long as the majority of people don't understand the value and importance of privacy we're going to continue to see these issues. When people buy the "if you have nothing to hide" argument, it's not going to change. - People only start to care when they feel sufficiently threatened, and in this case they don't understand the threat, until it's far too late, and then it suddenly clicks for the average Joe, years after many people have been warning them in advance but they dismissed them as crazy people - You can see examples of the point above all throughout the history. A minority keep warning people about a certain point, the majority doesn't feel it's important and continues to ignore it until it's too late, now everyone understand the mess they are in and at this point usually revolution and civil wars start. Then after lots of suffering they all vow to never repeat what they did, and to do something to never end up in that situation again, then they forget, and rinse and repeat.