When choosing between convenience and privacy, most people seem to choose convenience

Obviously. Those who chose otherwise have all died out long ago, starving to death in their own apartments, afraid that someone might see them if they ever went outside.

> When choosing between convenience and privacy, most people seem to choose convenience

But they wish it would have been convenient to choose privacy.

For many, it may be rational to give away privacy for convenience. But many recognize the current decision space as suboptimal.

Remember smoke-infused restaurants? Opting out meant not going in at all. It was an experience that came home with you. And lingered. It took a tipping point to "flip" the default. [1]

[1]: The Public Demand for Smoking Bans https://econpapers.repec.org/article/kappubcho/v_3a88_3ay_3a... "Because smoking bans shift ownership of scarce resources, they are also hypothesized to transfer income from one party (smokers) to another party (nonsmokers)."