I was happy to see "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" and "Permanent Record" on your list. More people are becoming aware of the threats that surveillance has on our society thanks to books like these and even something like The Social Dilemma on Netflix.
I think unfortunately we're going to see a lot of companies adopt a sort of "privacy washing" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gGb_vKbJLU) before we see much real change in their privacy practices.
I'll definitely add a few of these to my books to read for 2021.
I think as hacks become more and more common, and as more businesses lose revenue from data breaches, more companies will adopt better privacy and data security practices.
If someone "hacks" DuckDuckGo's databases, for example, they won't find any useful information. If they accessed Facebook's data storage, they would have tons of information about millions of people.
As companies like Microsoft, Apple, etc. adopt stronger data security, I think the general population will shift their practices as well.
This video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeBRt4qGHH8) kind of made everything click for me as far as how a "hack" can impact a person beyond just the data being publicly accessible.
I'm not sure I really understand the importance of decentralized web search...yet.
Why not just use something like Ghostpeek (https://ghostpeek.com) or DuckDuckGo (duckduckgo.com), which are ethical and trustworthy (for now)? Is the purpose of YaCy to prevent one company from having all of your search data or to provide better results?