My personal take on this is, that we cannot count on governments and legislation to stop surveillance (why should a government want this?), the responsibility to stop it lies in the hands of tech people to build and educate the users about alternatives and in the hands of the users to actually USE those alternatives.
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Not many alternatives to cameras on every corner and on fedex trucks
Oh there is, a very old one: Boycott
Granted, if its only a minority it will do nothing, but if companies that use FedEx are shunned by many it will have an effect.
Right but I also don’t think of this as a very effective method. People hardly have time to disrupt their lives for x y z cause. It’s probably what the corrupt politicians rely on because they know we’re too complacent. This feels like bringing a knife to a gun fight … just why?
Yeah, you are right, normally people are too occupied with, well, "just keep going" to fight for a cause, but this can change. I remember back in the time after the Snowden leaks there was a very strong push - even by normal people - for defense against surveillance. I remember how many coworkers and friends started to ask what they could do for more privacy...
But with other news and other problems this all fizzled out after months to years. I guess we will have to push the matter ever more in the focus to keep up with the ever shrinking attention span of the general population.
Yeah, its like good old Sisyphus... but I think its the only tool we have.