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A common refrain in arguments that we don&#x27;t need laws to protect privacy is that the market will take care of it.  The market can&#x27;t act against what it can&#x27;t see.  Privacy loss is often irreversible.<p>A common refrain in arguments that we don&#x27;t need to reject closed source software to protect privacy is that being closed source doesn&#x27;t hide the behaviour, and people will still notice backdoors and privacy leaks.  Sometimes they do, sometimes they don&#x27;t.<p>Parts of the US Governments unlawful massive domestic surveillance apparatus were described in the open in IETF drafs and patent documents for years. But people largely didn&#x27;t notice and regarded reports as conspiracy theories for a long time.<p>Information being available doesn&#x27;t necessarily make any difference and making a difference is what matters.