Until more people understand what privacy IS, and why it is important, it is highly unlikely that the trends will be reversed.

I don't have any answers, really...

The other day I bought gas at a local station and the clerk asked me if I wanted to apply for one of their discount cards to get 3 cents a gallon off the price. They scan the cards each time and there is simply no apparent purpose to it except to track who buys how much gas and when... Which is what I told her. She looked at me as if she could see absolutely no problem with that and said, "Yes, but you get 3 cents a gallon off!"

Then I learned in the local newspaper that the wonderful and benevolent "Homeland Security" has "given" our tiny rural Wyoming burg a grant to install surveillance cameras around town... I guess to monitor our incredible lack of any sort of crime, terrorism threat or even stray dogs... your tax dollars at work to "protect" us.

Mega sigh...