Most people do not care as long as they do not feel immediate negative consequences. Plus there is a certain pressure (social and economical) to use spyware for the benefit of some gigacorp. People need to have a certain mindset to value privacy and data sovereignty and be willing to take action
You can spend the entire first year of a Dh degree trying to come up with a defition ;) for some it is humanities with digital methods, for me Dh is the study of the intersections between digital technology and society. So I’d work on decentralised networks, plus the ideology behind it. Also I do some web archiving, and try to argue for public access to web archives .
Have a look at https://journalofdigitalhistory.org/en , I think it’s a good example of a Dh journal
Hallo,Jäger hier. Hier mal meine subjektiven zwei Cent: