The shifting baseline problem, a.k.a. the slowly boiled frog.
It applies to privacy like it applies to fish populations or climate change.
When your measured metrics consistently degrade over a long time span, comparing today’s values to the values from a couple of years ago is likely to miss the big picture.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/online-privacy
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