privacy is becoming even more of a privilege

I've been thinking more about the future we might be heading towards if things continue the way they do, relatively unstopped, especially in regards to data harvesting and leaks, and how digitalized our society continues to become. I wonder if we are simply headed for a society in which there is bleak acceptance and normalization of most pieces of information being out there already. Everything you put out there voluntarily/openly (like a blog, or social media) and the things passively collected about you (via your devices) being trained on, analyzed, in some database that cannot withstand the latest AI release or whatever, together with vibecoded insecure software. Your cloud, your social media posts, your DMs, your purchase history on different platforms, health data in your eFile, the journal entries you did in that aesthetic journaling app, the poop pictures you gave to an AI app to analyze, the recordings of your Alexa and smart TV, etc. that all may or may not be combined. We…