Now I feel bad as I was specifically thinking of my girlfriend and her academic peers who all have expressed that they would like to be more active in protecting their privacy but don't know where to begin. None of whom I'd patronise in any way. When talks over dinner strays onto the news of the last year it will inevitably end up with the question, "What can we do?".

Part of the answer to that is to take steps to protect your own privacy, encrypt, reduce what you share with third parties, and operate a reasonably sane set of defaults with regards to how one protects their data.

And I, who know how to take some steps, cannot realistically help, give guidance and support to them all. And they all have slightly different and nuanced perceptions of what their priority is, what they're seeking to achieve. Everyone has their own reasons.

I personally am at the point in which I don't wish to become the 2010's equivalent of the guy who can give computer support to Windows users, and yet here are smart people wanting a simple way to explore their options and choose what to act on.

I didn't mean game as in "cutesy candy stuff". Just a score would do, simple game theory... do some action, increase your score.

A bit like the LastPass Security Check... which tests how many sites share the same password, how many have weak passwords, etc.