It is not enough to develop technical solutions to circumvent the privacy erosion, as these will soon be branded as aiding crime or the enemies of the state, and eventually regulations like these will be passed almost everywhere.

Companies standing up for the privacy of their users should be held to a higher standard than simply imposing limits on their own data collection.

They must band together to actively lobby to counter these kind of policies to not run the charge of moral hypocrisy.

Another problem is that the party leadership on all sides is often more or less in favor of these policies.

If there is to be any effective political opposition to this it must be organized from the bottom up.