> The so-called privacy paradox, well-documented in academic research, refers to the gap between the concerns people say they have about their data and what they actually do about it. Some 92% of American consumers have said they should be able to control information about themselves on the internet, according to a 2019 PricewaterhouseCoopers report, but most don’t act on that concern. Just 45% said they updated their privacy settings on products, for instance, and only 16% stopped using a company’s services because of data misuse, according to another 2019 report by International Business Machines Corp.
I am sadly unsurprised, but still deeply concerned for how apathetic the general public have allowed themselves to become with regard to issues like this. The population of first-world industrialized nations seem to be more likely to riot over sports than they are over the corrosion of their civil liberties.