Privacy Awareness - Part 3 of 3

This post is part of a series. The parts are on the following links: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Sometimes we can think of the following ideas:

• "It's no use being more private now, because they already know too much about me!"
• "I've already used a lot of services that violate my privacy, so it's not worth using more private services!"
• "It's too much work to be more private, because there would be too many services to change, and too many habits to change!"
• etc.

Obviously, it may seem like a lot of work at first, or even discouraging, but we can do it calmly and it will be worth the time invested. We may have had bad privacy habits, and the harm we can't change (that is, we can't be sure if what they know about us has been "forgotten"), but we can become more privacy conscious, and that it will bring us many benefits, among them less practices of abuse and censorship towards users and preservation of our freedom.

This process is a habit to form, and it takes a lifetime (in the same way that we create good habits for a lifetime), but that's not a problem. The problem is being aware of these issues and not doing anything about them.