Phil Zimmermann's new Silent Circle startup will test whether Internet users will pay for privacy. They tell pollsters they will. Yet only 0.04 percent of Facebook users
bothered to vote last week in a poll about privacy policy changes; a
Firefox extension to block behavioral advertising has seen its daily users
decline slightly over the last year; and even an election year wasn't enough to convince politicians to convene a single hearing on a "Do Not Track"
bill introduced in February 2011.