If faith in the fairness and belief in the protection of the rule of law collapses much further, I suspect people will learn.

The question is whether they'll learn in time to do anything about it.

They may be the top stories, but they have never appeared on any list of voters' top concerns. It's always crime, jobs, the economy, inflation, and health care.

People can say whatever they want to journalists, but they say different things to the politicians. Standing up for privacy does not get you elected and so we will continue to get anti-privacy laws and Attorneys General who won't enforce what we do have.

The best you can hope for is a judge deciding how they want the Constitution to read, and that's far from the slam dunk you'd expect.

Germans have mass surveillance and they are perhaps the most privacy-conscious society in the world, because of their (relatively recent) authoritarian catastrophe.

I doubt anyone else will learn the lesson without something similar happening. Even some Germans are forgetting it already.

> I hope that as a society we are starting to learn, and protect, the value of, and right to, privacy.

I wish... but nope... see CA's and CO's requirements that OSs check ID

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