Privacy erosion is enhanced&#x2F;enabled by use of technology, but it&#x27;s ultimately a social issue. This is not an us-vs-skynet situation. Our society is simply organised incorrectly; power&#x2F;control over private information is misallocated and the result is a privacy hostile world.<p>It&#x27;s not the first time we&#x27;ve run into this kind of power misallocation. And we&#x27;ve solved a variety of them: slavery, women&#x27;s suffrage, segregation, gay rights, etc. We&#x27;ve tackled privacy before [1] in the dead-tree context. We can fix social problems, and privacy&#x2F;surveillance is one for our generation to handle.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Secrecy_of_correspondence" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Secrecy_of_correspondence</a>