Women I knew started to care when I showed them articles about how google and meta knew their menstrual cycles, and reported on searches about abortions to law emfprcemt

People literally don’t care about their privacy. Anything that is raised regarding tracking is classified as being paranoid and you become a weirdo.

Not until there is a massive data breach that leads to very serious and obvious real world consequences

I’m an average Joe and try to minimize my digital footprint as much as convenience allows, but keep seeing people say that this is paranoia and doesn’t matter.

Until there’s a massive leak of credit card data from a single incident, nothing will change.

possibly never going to happen