Re: When an individual’s payout is so very low
Yeah nice idea, but then it gets spunked up the wall on fuck all before it benefits anyone. This is pretty much the MO of most charities.
I think it should go to a non-profit, independent, non-government privacy advocacy and research group preferably not based in the US and based in a country outside the reach of the big 5 and their associated political bullshit, but with a footprint in all of them. Each time an organisation oversteps the mark on privacy, the beast there to oppose it should get bigger and scarier.
Privacy is sovereign and should be out of the reach of governments, corps etc therefore any organisation fighting for it should be also.
Lets be honest, the only way you're going to keep privacy in check is if you have a large group of well funded nerds constantly checking anything and everything with a solid legal team behind them so they can go to war as and when needed to shame these privacy abusing bastards.
Ideally we need some kind of international treaty on human privacy and cryptographic rights to ensure there is no way to circumvent local laws by using another third party country for data gathering etc.
It's bizarre to me that we have treaties for things like landmines, biological weapons, chemical weapons etc etc...which does affect a lot of people but nowhere near as many as are affected by privacy violations which can be just as dangerous and threatening.