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.
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.