> "... and the options before us are to either eschew all technology entirely, or to figure out how to live without privacy." A completely false and thoroughly

> "... and the options before us are to either eschew all technology entirely, or to figure out how to live without privacy." A completely false and thoroughly unhelpful dichotomy. It's comments like this which lead to defeatist attitudes and a lack of push-back (which, unsurprisingly, becomes self-fulfiling). Options include: - Engaging in the political process. What's the point of democracy if people are unwilling to use it? There are so many fringe interest groups that have managed to get their way because they've figured the system out and how to play it. It's fucking irritating when smart technical people simply write off this piece of the process. If you want to 'hack some (non-computer) system to your advantage', let it be this one. - Advocate for and try to use secure technologies. Security on the internet is a farce and ordinary people are constantly misinformed or poorly educated on the issue. Even developers don't get it right. It's in this state because the hard work of coming up with secure crypto is only a third of the problem. Another third is making it useable by normal people/devs and the final third is actually working on getting adoption of products and services that incorporate it. Of course, this directly conflicts with any business model based on advertising so it's time for new models too. Anything that gets decent crypto usable and widely deployed is a good thing for everyone. - Understand that 'privacy' is a multi-faceted thing (and help others understand). It's completely ridiculous and unhelpful to talk about it in binary terms and it's made worse when people confuse privacy with anonymity. There's a scale on which people treat these things which is obvious when you consider behaviour rather what people say about it. Change doesn't occur overnight, it takes schlep and conviction.