Society can opt out of this scheme whenever it wants.
IMO that’s about what it’s going to take. We’ve seen what giving the political elites the benefit of the doubt accomplished: buried grift after grift and burn baby burn.
Same old dog n pony show until the public (ideally peacefully) organizes to rattle elite sense of stability enough to change laws as a concession for the incoming generation.
But they have all our data and already modeled how far away we are from that point ;)
They have these already, it’s called a Yellow Pages.
It was opt out for a fee.
They shipped internationally. Anyone in the world could get your phone number and it was nigh untraceable!
The world did not end because of it.
I’d take the freak outs online seriously if anyone seemed to realize they’ve been “compromised” or easily could have been for years. Much more easily in fact, with less paper trail.
Increased awareness by the general public is not indicative of increased threat.
IMO that’s about what it’s going to take. We’ve seen what giving the political elites the benefit of the doubt accomplished: buried grift after grift and burn baby burn.
Same old dog n pony show until the public (ideally peacefully) organizes to rattle elite sense of stability enough to change laws as a concession for the incoming generation.
But they have all our data and already modeled how far away we are from that point ;)