Article like this confuse and sadden me.

Its often the same people who complain about this (its not just UK, every government wants this power and every government has agencies that deploy this power) who also complain about crypto being bad.

There are crypto solutions for many cloud services. I wont list them here, we call it Web3 and this is why it exists. To find some of those solutions use this chatgpt prompt

“Give me some examples of crypto solutions for normal cloud services people use.

Like how filecoin is lile dropbox and nostr is like x”

Im not saying that it is 1:1 in quality, utility, or integration. I’m saying that people malign an entire industry because some politicians find it useful to malign it. Those are likely the same politicians trying to for apple to do this. I have an article about this if you have more interest.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/dont-hate-crypto-just-because-you-don-t-understand-it-a1a5008f7405

Anyway, you are right. They should not give up personal access. But better yet, we should not be in a condition in society where its even possible to do so.