Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (1999)
Back then people took the idea of privacy really seriously. From what I saw what mostly killed it was the mobile phone revolution.<p>The entire mobile ecosystem was basically built to productize the user. A few oddballs pointed this out and were ignored because phones are shiny. The &quot;mobile mentality&quot; bled back into the entire rest of the computing ecosystem and this is where we are today.<p>Ultimately it&#x27;s rooted in economics. People like free stuff, and the only way to give it to them is to monetize it indirectly via ads and surveillance.