And I posted a link to a talk by Dan Geer “Cybersecurity as Realpolitik” that may be relevant here. Link here
Dan Geer (taking out of context):
“I’ve spoken elsewhere about how we are all intelligence agents now,
collecting on each other on behalf of various overlords.[RSA] There
are so many technologies now that power observation and identification
of the individual at a distance. They may not yet be in your pocket
or on your dashboard or embedded in all your smoke detectors, but
that is only a matter of time. Your digital exhaust is unique hence
it identifies. Pooling everyone’s digital exhaust also characterizes
how you differ from normal. Privacy used to be proportional to
that which it is impossible to observe or that which can be observed
but not identified. No more – what is today observable and
identifiable kills both privacy as impossible-to-observe and privacy
as impossible-to-identify, so what might be an alternative? If you
are an optimist or an apparatchik, then your answer will tend toward
rules of data procedure administered by a government you trust or
control. If you are a pessimist or a hacker/maker, then your answer
will tend towards the operational, and your definition of a state
of privacy will be my definition: the effective capacity to
misrepresent yourself.”