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Internet surveillance, and the resultant loss of privacy, is following the same trajectory. Just as certain fish populations in the world’s oceans have fallen 80 percent, from previously having fallen 80 percent, from previously having fallen 80 percent (ad infinitum), our expectations of privacy have similarly fallen precipitously. The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth. What seems normal to us in the security community is whatever was commonplace at the beginning of our careers.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

the over fishing parallel is a stretch, but yeah, we have been tucked into believing that everything is a service. That our privacy is the first payment for those services. All this data hording will always be terrible no matter how generational it becomes. Under the guise of "industry standard" as if there is no other option.