> You comment (kind of) implies that there's no point in doing anything because we've lost anyway. That's hypocrisy, not cynicism (because we're all doing somet

> You comment (kind of) implies that there's no point in doing anything because we've lost anyway. That's hypocrisy, not cynicism (because we're all doing something to protect our privacy). You're over-generalizing. What helps against, say, East European gangs (SSL) is not necessarily useful against state-level actors influencing crypto standards. And a rule supposed to protect our privacy against a specific state-level actor (the US government) is obviously pointless if the same data is handed to the US under the table.