Woodrow Hartzog is the author of Privacys Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies. He is highly critical of what he calls hiding technologies, which promise anonymity in a world where there is none. Hiding technologies work fine until matched against their counterpart: seeking technologies. Seeking technologies are designed to find and capture what we may be trying to keep private, he says. The consequence of overpromising privacy is significantly greater than the standard consequence for overhyping our products.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/the-dangers-of-techs-privacy-promises-1826236005