Last week, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier published an interesting blog post in which he (together with co-author Barath Raghavan) argues that online privacy is continuing to decline for the same reason overfishing occurred in the last century – due to the “Shifting Baseline Syndrome.” The presented analogy is a very powerful one, but we still feel that it falls flat in some regards, and in reality, online privacy might even be worse off than suggested.
Hopefully the Windows debacle and abortion and Palestinian resistance issues in the US remind people why privacy is important.
Spoiler alert: it won’t. And if it will, they will forget it within a week.
You are right. We should give up all hope at just give in, there is nothing we can do.