If one looks at an issue that would emotionally charge the population, the protection of children, and then looks back 150 years, you'll find that much of society didn't appear to care. In the US, for a period of time, pets had more legal protection than children. I'll avoid the grimmer details, but people were willing to tolerate things that today would cause mass outrage. It may have taken over a century to change public opinion, but public opinion did change and massively.
So how can we do the same with privacy and protection of basic rights?
How do we make them care?
If one looks at an issue that would emotionally charge the population, the protection of children, and then looks back 150 years, you'll find that much of society didn't appear to care. In the US, for a period of time, pets had more legal protection than children. I'll avoid the grimmer details, but people were willing to tolerate things that today would cause mass outrage. It may have taken over a century to change public opinion, but public opinion did change and massively.
So how can we do the same with privacy and protection of basic rights?