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This is reminiscent of the early days of online shopping. When online shopping started to take off, the risk of having your credit card information stolen was higher than today. This was because credit cards were transmitted using the same means as other information at the time. That is, to say, insecurely. It wasn’t until later on that we began to see standards arise and libraries emerge that addressed the issue. This isn’t to say that the developers of the era didn’t care. They simply didn’t have the means to achieve what was needed. I think that we will see the same with data privacy in the future. Not every developer is a privacy expert and I don’t think that will ever be the case. Someone will come up with a set of tools accessible to every developer that will solve these issues in a standard way. I’ve seen it happen before and I’ll see it again. The old becomes new, history rhymes, etc etc.