Those who play this down and say: „Most of us have nothing to hide“. See where our western democracies are heading to. With a potential Trump as a next president. With a Germany attacking, silencing, cancelling anyone who opposes the slaughter in Gaza. Professors being cancelled because she liked a tweet. Truth and thought police coming in the western world, with all the data they need to prosecute anyone deviating from the officially accepted opinion.
Yes, but it's also more nuanced than that. Russia is actively feeding these trends to undermine and destabilize western countries, for example. The internet is a tool for this as much as a cause of it.
