Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
And this is also the entire appeal of the Cloud… Just store everything on other people’s computers. It’s very convenient, available anywhere, no data loss and nothing to maintain or worry about.