The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

Is there really anything to do? Everyone is constantly uploading photos of my kids to Instagram and that's generating the same surveillance dragnet all these other things are building.

I don't see a way to opt-out without plastic surgery.

Individual action will never do anything on this. It has to come from privacy laws, the GDPR was a good step, but we need to go further.

Make storing personal data like storing hazardous material. Something you absolutely avoid if possible, and treat with extreme care when you absolutely must store it.

Unfortunately the users of this site would rather tell you to move to the woods, go off grid, and paint dazzle camouflage on your face before admitting that a solution has to come from society rather than the individual.

Your comment makes it sound like everyone's PII just spontaneously generates itself on platforms. The problem is that it's not how it works; individual action is what puts your information on adversarial platforms. Personal privacy is the sum of your actions, and the steps you take individually to not share your details with hundreds of people goes a long ways stopping that.

If you want to scare businesses, ban arbitration clauses and other self-absolving Terms of Service. It won't stop Pornhub from getting hacked but it will make their lawyers piss themselves imagining the consequences. Trying to enforce SOC2 on the entire internet is an exercise in futility that will end with Russian hackers selling your credit card to teenagers.