I don't mean to say that surveillance stopped necessarily but I thought that the thought of having a police state such as it was in East Germany or in other Eastern European countries would have vaccinated the world against those tyrannical tendencies.
It's little bit what we have now with respect to nuclear weapons, where we have used them twice and decided to not do it again (so far).
I just cannot fathom that someone is genuinely ok with having their worst secrets and their deepest fear out there in the open being sorted and analyzed by some black box algorithm who may or may not start an investigation against them because they said the wrong thing or shared the wrong image.
Agree. Many reason for people to accept it or resign though (none good):
* everyone seems ok with it
* I do not have a dark secret
* I do have a dark secret but why would I be of interest?
* my data is already out there anyway, no point encrypting anything now.
* so far, so good, why change?
* Nothing is secure anyway, everything is hacked, so what’s the point?
It's little bit what we have now with respect to nuclear weapons, where we have used them twice and decided to not do it again (so far).
I just cannot fathom that someone is genuinely ok with having their worst secrets and their deepest fear out there in the open being sorted and analyzed by some black box algorithm who may or may not start an investigation against them because they said the wrong thing or shared the wrong image.