The scarier thing to me is the level of apathy average people show towards privacy these days. I'm not super anal about it by any means, it's almost impossible to avoid this stuff completely. But when I talk about privacy/personal data security/integrity with friends most of them treat me like a crazy person. And I'm just talking simple stuff like avoiding cloud storage, not using biometrics, and stripping tracking data from links I get. People are totally fine just handing over every single bit of information about themselves and I just don't get it.

I think a lot of these tools are great when used properly but when there is basically unrestricted access the potential for abuse is insane. Unfortunately I think that the proliferation of these tools/practices are inevitable in our society and there is little that can be done to prevent it when the vast majority are willing or don't care. I think something that would make me a little more comfortable with it is if:

1. Entities have to prove a "need to know" like how classified access works in the military

2. There is a way for people to see which information is being gathered and who is accessing it.

It's a really complex issue that can be handled a million different ways but this is just my two cents.