I trust a government to do some tasks well but there are goals people want which I cannot trust. There is no one who can be trusted to choose what you yourself can read/hear/see. Even though people can die from speech I can't trust a government to censor it.

Even if companies had good intentions, and put a lot of effort into security, I wouldn't trust an electronic version connected to a network. Like how I wouldn't trust a government to do electronic voting.

I don't know how to to convince people but it seems the only answer - to promote the value of privacy and teach people how to avoid having data on them being collected.