They're not wrong, of course. And your comment is very similar: the problem isn't the technology, it's the impetus of society that needs to change.
You can care plenty about these issues but not see an actual way to have impact such that your concerns are addressed. If society isn't caring, then either society doesn't see why there's a concern, or society recognizes that atomically it does not have agency to address the issue, and the people who do have that agency are the ones that don't give a shit.
For a subset, sure, maybe a good PR push gets people sufficiently inflamed about a particular topic, but does that mean that key problems that aren't 'viral' enough aren't deserving of a proper solution? If "society needs to care more" is the answer, then that's the implication. But that's obviously wrong.
But here, the government is probably the biggest offender. You'll pry their databases and TSA inspections from their cold, dead hands.
My point was simply that we can't skip the stable society part and sit in an ivory tower of activism.