alt Hacker NewsI sometimes think about how norms have changed. People are more neurotic and more longing for safety than before. If the Internet was invented today, it would likely work that way. (Though another aspect is that when the Internet was invented it was simply technologically impossible to do a deep semantic scan of messages.)
Similar thing is that I believe if motorcycles were invented today they would most certainly be banned from the road due to their safety properties.
There needs to be a balance. It feels off, today & consequences of future, that technology has led to the collapse of privacy.
And as we progress we will need to rationalize what it means for private companies, AI, to know everything about you and for the government to have a tap into that. I hope balance lands in favor of things like privacy preserving underpinning.