Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed

An interview with Bruce Schneier assesses privacy a decade after Data and Goliath, concluding that mass surveillance by governments and corporations has intensified, cloud/IoT/smartphones have expanded data exposure, and US federal privacy reform remains unlikely despite European and some state laws; while end-to-end encryption is a major win, the rise of cloud-reliant AI assistants threatens to undo it, Apple’s relative privacy stance stems from its business model, the NSA’s security-versus-surveillance conflict persists, and the near-term outlook worsens even as he remains cautiously optimistic about long-term change.