Havent fully swallowed this pill but its feeling inevitable.
As I see it, our only choice is to make privacy and anonymity trivial. Not for techies, but for our tech illiterate grandparents. Push hard for tools like Signal where people can get encryption without having to think about encryption. People want privacy and security but they just don't know how or don't understand what leaks data. But there's the clear irony that the sector __we__ are critical to is the one who is creating this problem.
I'm not ready to swallow that pill. I'm unconvinced we have to. Clearly __we__ can do something about this. Even if that is refusing to build such things, let alone build defenses. Apathy is no different than supporting these authoritarian takeover, because that's what it is. Authoritarian creep.
We've literally created this problem by making industrial-scale stalking profitable and socially-acceptable. We've created an entire self-sustaining industry that spies on everyone, is not accountable and that the government can just ask for data when needed.