[TAForObvReasons]

The battle is lost. People by and large have decided that it is worth sacrificing most of their privacy to use "free" services like Facebook and google. The only relief at this point is regulatory.

[icebraining]

Awareness is not just useful to convince people to act individually, it's also useful if you want to pass that legislation.

[ksk]

> The only relief at this point is regulatory.

But why would the government intervene in a private decision that citizens have made?

[aeorgnoieang]

Why bother protecting something that most people, as you yourself claim, don't actually value that highly?

[tome]

Because it's actually valuable.

[ksk]

What does that mean? People don't value it, ergo, not valuable.

[walterstucco]

Your privacy is my privacy

We talk at the phone, we chat, we take pictures together

If you don't mind about your privacy you're probably hurting someone else's

[dllthomas]

Yeah, and just because many people are happy to trade it away doesn't mean everyone is. (And of course many don't realize just how much they're trading away...)