Privacy awareness (Was: Cypherpunks priorities)

I wrote:

EH> 5. Increasing awareness of privacy issues. Most think they have EH> nothing to hide. Most also hate it when they get extremely detailed EH> junk mail about their own lives. Teach the defense of privacy.

Paul replies:

This is perhaps the most difficult feat to accomplish.

I agree. I think junk mail may be one of the best examples from which to extrapolate for the general public. It becomes really clear exactly that they do know something, because it says so right on the letter. It's usually easier to get people thinking about their own lives than abstract privacy issues. Eric