That ball is already rolling downhill, and I don’t think it can be stopped. In addition to the perfectly reasonable concerns of a few billion people, there are also some very wealthy and entrenched media interests who only stand to gain by kicking it along. I don’t think the reputation of tech is salvageable at this point, and the result will be having to live with regulation and oversight like every other industry. Even if everyone shaped up overnight (and they won’t) there is still so much yet to emerge into the public light about what has already happened. Uber and Facebook alone have almost certainly only just begun to bleed scandal.
> the result will be having to live with regulation and oversight like every other industry.
The only other industry I think could be comparable to this, from a privacy standpoint, would be the banking industry. They are largely flying under the radar during all of this, any hypothesis why? Is it because their regulation and oversight is working like you are alluding to? Or is it because the banking industry has not been caught...yet?
