“Is privacy a thing of the past?”
No.
“Any government can find out how many times you scratch your butt a day.”
Not my butt they can’t.
You exaggerate.
“Everything on line can be found out through one way or the other.”
What?
No.
Not everything is online.
The things that are online are often not accurate.
“Most purchases can be tracked.”
Which is nasty and should be stopped.
“Is real privacy a thing of the past, do we care that we are losing it?”
What’s “real privacy”?
It’s possible to be off the grid.
It’s especially possible to add inaccurate noise to what is online about yourself.
However, there are far more intrusions than there used to be, and more than there should be, and yes many people care about it.
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“But it seems all levels of privacy are now a thing of the past,”
It does? How so?
“we don’t seem to care, should we care?”
Some do and some don’t. Yes, enough people should care that the bad abuses can be corrected.
“As long as the powers that be say it’s in the name of safety we just allow it.”
That’s one of the nasty tricks used, yes. Count me out of your ”we just allow it” though, and think about how you can count yourself out, too.
“Everything we buy is tracked back to us so we can be the focus of advertising .”
Which is nasty, but resistible. Send me a private message and we could arrange to trade store loyalty cards. Most of mine are under no name, fake names, someone else’s name, etc.