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RE: Is Your Cell Phone Snitching On You? How Much Does It Know?
While the present inequity in data sharing is disconcerting, it is also inevitable and unavoidable, but temporary.
Before long Eric Schmidt of Google's movements, every conversation held behind closed doors at NSA headquarters, and every gift made by lobbyists, will be just as available to us, as ours are now to them.
They won't like it, but they can't arrest the progress of technology any more than can we.
I'd like to think this is true. But who is writing the code that'll make this happen?
Kim Dot Com, for one. Many unnamed hax0rz are also. The greatest strength of the technological revolution is that it is being undertaken by myriad and diverse actors, many of whom are being targeted by TPTB for their opposition to the status quo.
That motivates many to act.
Each tiny progress adds only a bit of potential. Cumulatively, these bits of progress add up to paradigm shifts, over time. It's like the slow flow of lava from a volcano.
What was before is utterly eradicated, and something new has replaced it, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.
I hope you're right. The status quo has a lot of money and resources to throw behind keeping things the way they want, and enough marketing savvy to convince folks that's how they want it, too.
There have always been those whose fortunes depended on keeping technological progress at bay, and they have always lost, either as technology progressed no matter how they tried to suppress it, or as catastrophe overcame civilization itself, including them.