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General public are generally ignorant about risks in the tech they use. That doesn't mean they don't care about their privacy.

There's an assumption that laws and safeguards are in place so technology in general can be trusted and transacted on.

In other words they trust in us "the tech circle" to police ourselves and assert security and privacy. It's not circle jerk about privacy. It's a duty we have by being in the frontlines.

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Exactly. The general public is never going to say “I demand end to end encryption and complete privacy” because they don’t know how all the tech works. But they’re surely going to expect that their private text messages are private and their private pictures are private. People expect privacy as a default and sharing as an option, and they rely on the “experts” (tech companies, lawmakers, etc) to help them.

Not exactly. Some people may not understand and also not care and I'm sure there are many many people who that fits. When you're talking about surveillance level vs. someone hacking your iPhone that's not really a comparison. Of course people don't want their private messages stolen, but that's not really the case with most surveillance. Not that I'm in favor of it necessarily but there are merits.

Surveillance and privacy aren't the same thing but this is the FBI and people are bringing up snowden. In general I think you're right privacy is just expected for personal messages, but at some point when it's just data I don't think most people care, and may in fact support some level of surveillance.

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