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.

GDPR is not a good start. GDPR is a joke due to its lack of enforcement, and I'd argue it gives people a false sense of security.

Not only we have (non-compliant) consent flows that destroyed user experience everywhere (without improving privacy in any way, since again they're not compliant and not actually designed to give you privacy), but the lack of enforcement means companies can now claim various things as GDPR compliant, knowing full well nobody is going to actually examine this claim (and if they do, the resulting consequences will be negligible) to give their users/customers a false sense of security.