There's the joke about anecdata to be had here, but I've found the people I talk to do care and value their privacy, and they are coming to a slow realization that there's a creeping ... creepiness to it. At least with the people I interact with regularly (most of whom aren't technologists), the average person is getting slightly annoyed by having to keep an eye on their gizmos as they slowly hear more about the devices betraying their trust in a myriad small ways.

And I think that's where the revolution foments. Momentum builds slowly, but it seems to be there, simmering and slowly heating over the years. Those folks calling for revolution now are just impatient and louder.

I disagree. With 1.23 billion users[0], Facebook is easily one of the most visited websites on the planet. Also up there? Google.

Convenience is winning the war, and that's only increasing. All data points to even more invasiveness of products, and even more acceptance by people. The people you talk to simply don't outweigh the greater voice of the sum total of users of the Internet.

There is no revolution. Nothing is fermenting, and there is no momentum, except from the hacker elite (us), and that's not going to change, if stock prices and usage rates are any indication.

[0] - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/04/facebook-1...

I think it would be more accurate to say that people vastly underestimate how they actually value their own privacy.

Remember the Holocaust? Well, one thing that helped was an initially mostly harmless ethnic census conducted by Napoleon. Then the Nazi got hold of that data, and used it. Oops. Not that you or your descendants actually risk being put down in the gaz chamber because you turn on your TV, but there's a whole range of nasty stuff that can happen between nothing and summary execution.

What really annoys me is that people have a right to not care or see past their own nose. If their opinion was free of negative consquences for me -- and more importantly, the people who already are feeling the boot -- I would consider accepting them having it. But that is far from the case.

What makes people think they have the right to be ignorant and/or opportunistic, when I never asked them to? :P