Privacy is an important role which plays in our lives. Since ordinary citizens of a country cannot always control the policies of their country, I believe the problems do not just lie in politics, but it should be technologically impossible if not incredibly hard to do mass data collection of all citizens.<p>I constantly keep switching between caring about my privacy(the https://www.prism-break.org way) and not caring as much about my privacy(using google's services for everything). I do this due to the fact that it seems impossible what I want to achieve.<p>How do I know that the wireless card which is in my laptop is not backdoored and allows malicious remote requests? My internet connection at the university is logged to my id. Same for the vpn. Even if I set up another external vpn connection, isn't it easily traceable that my computer initiates a connections with said vpn server. Even the lone fact of detecting that I would be using tor, makes me already suspicious.<p>My phone tracks me(geographically and usage wise) and all the internet traffic which is going through the device is directly connected to my identity, because my phone company has all my contract data.<p>What is the use of making me myself look anonymous and try to secure all internet traffic towards third parties, if it actually makes me stand out? If a person of interest would actually use all these tools, wouldn't a malicious third party simply try to install hardware in the device to get all the input and output operations in the sense of an embedded input/out logger.<p>How do you approach the whole privacy issue? Are you taking any steps? Are they only politically or do they also apply to the technology you are using? Where do you set the limits, how much do you believe that we should care about our privacy?<p>Edit: Formatting