So much of our online privacy has already been taken

We have nearly abandoned online privacy already. Society should have realised long ago that anything that goes into the online ‘ether’ is potentially public, available for scrutiny by hackers and government agencies. Already, cyber security experts are advising ‘netizens’ to limit their use of social media. When US Attorney General William Barr called for tech companies to give law enforcement access to encrypted communications and information, it was a massive blow against what’s left of society’s privacy.^[1] No one needs to be giving away what little privacy they have left. The current situation is untenable, and we are already giving away our data and allowing private companies or the government to take more and more of our liberties in the name of ad revenue or security. Furthermore, the ‘giants’ who are snooping on our data are trying to sell it online. On a national level, the individual’s lack of privacy becomes magnified by adversary intelligence agencies to create person-person profiles. They have means to exploit our lack of privacy, our leakage of what we do, what we buy, and amass this information by the billions of bits. Big search engines are already tracking users to determine which results to display. Whilst it may appear that results similar to other sites you visit may be advantageous, this creates a filter bubble, where you can only view information that you are likely to agree with. Online privacy is now a lost cause and should be abandoned, because society has already found itself with huge data breaches.^[2]

[P1] Governments, companies and organisations are currently accessing our personal information for their own benefit. [P2] Therefore, society should abandon the idea of online privacy because we can no longer do anything to stop breaches of our data.