Comment by hedora
2 years ago
This requires legislation, and a court system that upholds the law.
In the US, the courts just decided there's no right to privacy (despite what the 4th amendment says) as part of rolling back Roe v. Wade.
So, the path forward is to vote in legislators that respect basic human rights, followed by court packing (or just impeaching the judges that have been publicly accepting bribes and failing to recuse themselves on cases where they have a clear conflict of interest).
Since the above is supported by way more than 50% of the US population, the main obstacles are gerrymandering and ending the currently common practice of appointing blatently corrupt judges to state supreme courts (and also restoring recently stripped powers to state governors, since they're elected via simple majority).
Exactly, and all of that is hard and slow. We live in the now, with the internet tracking our every move by current design. Pretending it isn't tracking us doesn't mean it actually isn't.
People are generally keeping themselves monitored as they use the internet. It's a panopticon with more steps. So it's no surprise governments are using the plaintext of anything they can find to track people.
And if people don't care about that because they are more focused on their pet political issue, it will never change, and silently get worse.