My expectation is rather bleak. People already willing give up so much personal data without a second thought.

You and RTP have put this into words far better than I could. Thank you.

Without collective action by people, I see current trajectory, continuing.

One of continual x, y emergencies (par for the course) used to strip our rights / freedom online / offline.

For example, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum states: "we need to make a vaccine for the internet". That is something that stuck with me. I have to wonder, what is an "internet vaccine"? Can only imagine the wish is to "clean" (control) the internet, information, and visibility (amplify / deamplification) using AI, digitalID, worldwide. DigitalID will be introduced as a way to increase reputation / visibility. It's not a pretty picture.

We can clearly see innovation is no longer by chance, but instead being financed. Every trend has been by design.

Corporations continuing to make invasive increments in entertainment, "fun" (ie: media, ring doorbell cam TV show, etc - "building / funding our own mass surveillance for plutocracies is fun!").

I see people going 1 of 2 directions: on one hand, we have people who continue to integrate their reality into the newest invasive dopamine hit releasing tech / social products. That group will eventually have all behavior, speech, and lives fully automated by AI (as integration becomes ever more tailored to / in the individual). They will eventually lose what it means to be human (side effect of this tech + loss of privacy / behavior autonomy on long enough time period IMO). All speech / behavior will be policed in a privatized way much like we are seeing today. An increase in the same.

I see another group who for one reason or another choose to enhance private spaces (remaining human). Whether out of curiosity, instinct, or from learning the hard way by having their lives ruined in one way or another by dark corporate profit interests. And it will involve tech on the path of I2P, where all users pitch in resources to pool stronger anonymity be it network, radio or processing.

I forsee many companies willing to engage more of the darkside of AI to find new profit avenues (behind the scenes, and if powerful enough, out in open), to gain power / influence. From deeper / more malicious "reputation" based businesses of various kinds, to products designed to actively manipulate the former humans in the above group using their data. Possibly even businesses catering to manipulate individuals, for other individuals. A more mainstream service of sorts (in comparison to today).

AI will become the modern day "ministry of truth" (1984).

Most don't change until they feel pain. 🧐

Also why it's important to both embrace and create alternatives to the mainstream, like I2P, and alternative networks / mesh.

I do see real hope in that type of thing growing as people better understand threats in the landscape.

Facebook cares about it's users!

bows head

And people just hand personal data over right and left ...

Another self serving pact to provide a dash of extra plausible deniability for spying, chock full of empty promises...

As is the modern day standard. 🙃

Facebook: “ 😭 We support giving people more control over how their data is used, but Apple’s far-reaching changes occurred without input from the industry..."

😇

History says French govt. are actual terrorists.

100%

Mainstream media pushes incessant "darknet" propaganda to paint networks presenting "challenge to monitor users" in bad light (even if intent is innocent).

I see security perks of i2p as another nice aspect that can help gain the right public recognition.

This is where things like I2P are key. You can't really hide that you are running I2P either, but you can hide what you are doing on the internet. Unlike Signal, Telegram and such. Since your router routes other people's traffic as well.

Cloud storage tends to kill this :(

"new transparency and oversight constraints, together with the growth of encrypted technology, have tilted the balance towards privacy."

Sounds a bit idealistic.

We all should have the basic dignity that is the right to privacy in our homes and personally owned devices (at a minimum).

Human autonomy / privacy isn't a threat to anyone... unless that person / power has a thing for totalitarianism. 🙄

This is unacceptable!

It gets worse!

http://ramble.i2p/f/privacy/4869/french-senate-just-approved-a-controversial-provision-to-a

This is total bullshit. The desire for privacy is not a crime.

You don't say.

It's the best we've got though. Linus is a total gangster for basically telling us 'yes there is a backdoor, please find it' with his "nooooo" nod.

Would you propose proprietary is better somehow?

I never stopped using self-hosted mail. Been using it for about 20 years now and it works fine for me.

bAd OnLinE bEhAvIoR. you know, the stuff that's existed since what like 2002. Useless research and money spending. Soon they might be monitoring voice chats if they don't already do that

Look into I2P.

Less centralization, (no hard-coded directory servers; because on I2P everyone is a directory server) more relays, (everyone is a relay by default) faster than Tor.

Downside: Less exit nodes. I2P is meant for communicating mostly within I2P, not outside. But this can be a good thing, because most of the attacks that the feds use to deanonymize tor users are based upon the user using exit nodes to talk to the regular internet.

Yeah, I don't think Tor is the answer to this issue.

Agreed, however, from the same article you have it mentioned that a board member of Tor is also the CEO of the company that sells this data to the US Military / Government.

The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General, which the whistleblower alleges referred their complaint to the Navy, told Motherboard it had received Wyden’s letter and was reviewing it. The Office of the Naval Inspector General declined to comment and directed Motherboard back to its Department of Defense counterpart.

Beyond his day job as CEO of Team Cymru, Rabbi Rob Thomas also sits on the board of the Tor Project, a privacy focused non-profit that maintains the Tor software. That software is what underpins the Tor anonymity network, a collection of thousands of volunteer-run servers that allow anyone to anonymously browse the internet.

“Just like Tor users, the developers, researchers, and founders who've made Tor possible are a diverse group of people. But all of the people who have been involved in Tor are united by a common belief: internet users should have private access to an uncensored web,” the Tor Project’s website reads.

When asked by Motherboard in April about Thomas’ position on the Tor Project board while also being the CEO of a company that sells a capability for attributing activity on the internet, Isabela Bagueros, executive director for the Tor Project, said in an email that “Rabbi Rob's potential conflicts of interest have been vetted according to the standard conflicts disclosure process required of all board members. Based on the board's understanding of Rabbi Rob's work with Team Cymru, the board has not identified any conflicts of interest.”

More reasons to develop alternetworks that make this kind of thing more difficult.

That would probably qualify.

Like "Angry Goy 2"?

I think if they examine the relationship between game developers and "extremism" developed in certain games, they will discover that some gaming companies are more likely to produce games that correlate to this kind of activity.