"The War on Privacy" is Real
Less than a day ago this video entitled "The War on Privacy" got published. (Invidious Instance Link)
"Sompi" told me about it in IRC. It's hardly surprising; here in the UK, for instance, months ago the government demanded back doors from GAFAM. They didn't even hide it anymore. Microsoft is of course the lapdog of the back doors industry, so it won't even challenge the government about that. Microsoft already bakes "kill switches" into every PC and discourages people from getting around that.
I, of course, do not adopt such technology. Nor does my wife. We both use locally hosted Mumble (Murmur) for calls and we encrypt E-mail any time it's feasible (depends on the recipient's ability to deal with PGP). This has served us well for many years. the rest of my family and my wife's family also use Mumble.
It's important to recognise that there really is "A War on Privacy". It's not a myth and people who teach other people how to gain privacy (or to avoid back doors) get targeted. Andy wrote about this many times in his lengthy blog posts. He saw it in his university and sounded the alarm (only to reach deaf ears). The British government has no qualm about teaching people how to break into systems (GCHQ recruits such people; I heard that from a friend with firsthand experience about 22 years ago). In other words, privacy is seen as a nuisance or a privilege of the very few.
For a democracy to survive we must ensure every member of the public is entitled to privacy and that privacy doesn't get conflated with "terrorism" or something like that (experience shows that terrorists are too dumb to even know what encryption means). █