At the end of the day, our computers and smartphones are just data input/output machines. Humans generate petabytes of data yearly, and that data is going to be stored, processed and used, forever. The invent of HDDs, fibre internet and increased processing power means more can be done with that data. It's entirely plausible entire streams of stored encrypted data (TLS, openvpn etc) may one day be decoded and provide fascinating insight's into human behavior. (I wouldn't be surprised if there was a giant archive of every single byte of FB/Twitter/Reddit/HN data in a DC somewhere...even this post!)
I think we need to accept and embrace this, and that privacy is now a fight that is, for better or worse, a lost cause. Covid generated even more streams of data through sequencing, and you can be sure all of this is being stored, forever.
You can, and probably should, fight against it, but if you're a human alive today you should know many bits of data (about you) will almost certainly be contained on many disks for future generations to look at, and that isn't likely to change any time soon (short of a major regression in human capability and understanding)
I think we need to accept and embrace this, and that privacy is now a fight that is, for better or worse, a lost cause. Covid generated even more streams of data through sequencing, and you can be sure all of this is being stored, forever.
You can, and probably should, fight against it, but if you're a human alive today you should know many bits of data (about you) will almost certainly be contained on many disks for future generations to look at, and that isn't likely to change any time soon (short of a major regression in human capability and understanding)