I take it the UK government members will go first to open up to have their data looked in to for everyone’s safety considering they cause more damage than anyone over the years. And yes, I’m holding back to prevent making this break the politics rule.
For me Encryption and privacy is non-negotiable and argue encryption makes everyone safer. People need to remember laws can change at any time and what is legal now may not be in future, and so any “warrant” required can be obtained at any time.
Too bad most of the population won’t care so there will never be any pushback against it while they ignore those who do care and warn against this.
I think this is true, in that the majority of the masses will continue as normal.
Those who care about it aren’t left without options though. If one can’t have confidence that a company is going to be able to protect their data privacy indefinitely, perhaps we should be more self dependent. These issues relate to who holds the keys to our data. Government wants to retain access to said keys, and seeks the ability to obtain it from business.
If we take on personal responsibility for holding the keys to our own data, and even the storage of our data, these issues aren’t really issues any more.
TLDR: Encrypt your online data, and/or don’t use cloud storage 
Absolutely correct, I have pretty much all data self hosted on my own equipment and encrypted, although not as efficiently managed as I would like currently but working on that to set up a NAS among other things, but at least it’s all encrypted while I work the other things out. Thankfully the only thing I have in cloud storage is recipes that isn’t encrypted myself before upload so I can view them remotely via phone.
Honestly, I haven’t trusted hosted encryption for years. All my data is locally encrypted and pushed to the cloud.
What do you mean by hosted encryption?
That is what I meant is I locally encrypt a number of files and then send to the cloud, except recipes (Since I took these off the internet anyway).
I mean I don’t trust the encryption provided by services or cloud providers.
Yes, I was basically saying “I do the same thing” 
I’ve been warning and educating people with influence for the last few years to use said influence to make actual changes, but they continuously make convenience rule the day.
“The companies we work with use App A, so I must use it too.”
“It isn’t easy to learn how to use App C, and will take too much time.”
“This is the industry standard, so yes, App C is great, but it’s not used by the large companies I want to work with in the future.”
All a bunch of excuses. Any app or service that is an industry standard now has only been so for less than 20 years. A new industry standard can quite literally become the thing to use in less than 5 years.
It’s a cop-out excuse to not actually try to do something on a personal level. They only do what the industry/market requires and nothing else, which will eventually lead to (and has led to) a lack of control of what you can or can’t do.
I see, no problem. I just wanted to double check as I didn’t know if I misunderstood something or explained something incorrectly before in how I described it.
Agreed. However, I’d say that if things get out of hand, this becomes pretty much one of the most difficult things to do. Why? The illegalisation of privacy. 
I’d say, at the very least, being ostracised from society for wanting privacy. This is already a thing, really. It’s just not in a way that causes any prejudicial treatment.
I’ve had similar issues in the past trying to warn people regarding privacy and security and they don’t seem to care or have a blank look as even giving up a single service or app (Not for me, I don’t use these apps or services) is too much trouble. What does affect me and others is the metadata these apps collect even if I don’t use them someone sent my data to them without my consent mostly through contacts sharing. I do mention this and the fact a data breach with access to this metadata can create more scams but even that is not enough sometimes.
At least for me compared to a year or two ago I have pretty much swapped out almost all the software I used with new ones, some of which I have had to learn a few things extra, or utilising the terminal for built in commands and functions of linux rather than many alternative software, especially now in a world where people are used to having an app or separate software for every small thing, of course if the software is safe then it’s fine, like many open source softwares but I limit this if possible.
I have had some limited success in changing the types of apps and some software in the company I worked for (As far as trying to influence change goes with staff), usually under the increased data or security threat reason (Especially some of the free apps they try to use for business use) compared to an alternative or that some have additional functions or compatibility with other software to help the business. But sometimes I have to add specific software or apps and I just lock them down as much as possible because if senior member of that teams says they want something I can’t really stop them.
I thought of two quotes now that we are into this discussion since this is about a freedom.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” -Benjamin Franklin
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it” -Abraham Lincoln
My take on this is: I do not put my data on somebody else computer. I have a self hosted nextcloud and that is it.
On the other hand, I do understand people who use the cloud for their photos. Where else do you put thousands of photos from your smartphone? If you are not an IT guy you have probably no option.
And as a last statement: I do understand the appetite of law enforcement agencies for this data. The past public attacks of crazy terrorists have shown that this data has relevant information and can reveal potential attackers before they do bad stuff.
I’ve always kept my data locally because I’ve never trusted the cloud hosting companies or our government. The only exception is my website and I want people to look at that!
WhatsCRAP has ALWAYS needed to go cause it’s nothing but a scammers paradise. As for CRAPple of course they gave away the store now that the technocrats own American and now think they don’t have to answer to anyone.