I'm normally the one accusing other people of being defeatist! My problem is that at root, people don't care enough. They'll write reams of text about how unfair it all is what with their privacy being stolen from them, but they won't actually uninstall those very things they complain about. FYI, I don't use any social media except this one, pseudonymously.

If people actually cared enough to do something this would be solved very quickly indeed but they don't.

> governments can and have pushed for privacy regulations.

Depends. The EU has done not badly at all on this, the American government on the other hand…