Privacy Outrage Is Just the Lag Between Tech Progress and Cultural Adaptation
signulll · x · 2026-09-07
The author argues every breakthrough product initially feels like a privacy norm violation — Gmail's email scanning, Granola's consent-less background recording — and the next wave of AI products will too. The core insight: technology moves faster than social norms, so much of what we call privacy violation is really just the lag between technological progress and cultural adaptation.
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