As I’ve already written about, I don’t trust the big tech companies and I’m not comfortable with being the product. Unfortunately the solution is to spend money and like many other millennials, especially those of us who are starting families, that’s just not possible for me at this time. The simple fact is that student loans, stagnant wages, rising food costs, and having a baby has made it so that we’re working hard to reduce costs, so moving from “free” services to paid services is not possible for me.

Like everything else in the modern world, the elite, a hand full of corporations and wealthy people, have all of the power and the rest of us have little if any.

However, it’s not all despair since some services actually believe in protecting their user’s privacy and offer limited free plans, but it does mean that in many ways privacy is a privilege for those who can afford it.