Quite amusing to see the same people behind the organizations that present themselves as do gooders, solicit for donations from the tech community, seem to just be playing as faux opposition, like the red-team vs blue team in war games.<p>Even when groups like the sunlight foundation oppose EFF on the recent Freedom Act, took 2 million dollars this year from the Omaydar network[0], it all still seems like part of a marketing pitch.<p>I think it is even more telling how most people in the community here seem to look the other way when presented with these things.<p>All apart of the banality of privacy as a service:<p><i>So right away, let us cast aside the technological protocols, that are usually referred to as “the internet”, that of which was built upon that make accessing or publishing information public between two or more machines…<p>Because talking about such things would require most internet users to cast aside social constructs they willingly suspend on a daily basis upon engaging with such technology/services (without any care to understand for oneself, one might add) and then demand collectively in retrospect to have their cries pacified while continuing to use such services (of which, most for free).<p>Yup, let us look past all that and believe (because that’s all we can do for ourselves) that institutions/organizations/companies/governments, that all consist of our fellow human beings in all of our qualities and flaws, can provide for the individual that which he chooses not to do for himself, to a satisfactory level in which his desires are forever coddled and placated…</i>[1]<p>[0] <a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/funding/" rel="nofollow">http://sunlightfoundation.com/about/funding/</a><p>[1] <a href="http://blog.pictobar.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of-privacy-as-a-service" rel="nofollow">http://blog.pictobar.com/post/63785124046/the-banality-of-pr...</a>