>If you dont have privacy, you cannot do anything as a group or individual that goes against anyone powerful. Freedom can also be thought of as sovereignty.
Seems like a pretty one-sided American cowboy version of freedom.
More accurate take I think is that privacy is often a tool of the powerful stopping collective action of citizens. Finance, taxes, and payment compensation are a pretty trivial example. The rich and powerful love their financial privacy, ordinary citizens gain little from it. Wage earners who benefit from their status love that they don't have to share their income with coworkers who may be discriminated against.
I think the opposite is true. It's not privacy but transparency that is required if groups are supposed to be able to take action against the powerful.
can you build a company if you were required to make all your future plans transparent to all competitors? Transparency and Privacy both have their place. Everyone should have privacy of information but the rules of privacy should be open to everyone.
Seems like a pretty one-sided American cowboy version of freedom.
More accurate take I think is that privacy is often a tool of the powerful stopping collective action of citizens. Finance, taxes, and payment compensation are a pretty trivial example. The rich and powerful love their financial privacy, ordinary citizens gain little from it. Wage earners who benefit from their status love that they don't have to share their income with coworkers who may be discriminated against.
I think the opposite is true. It's not privacy but transparency that is required if groups are supposed to be able to take action against the powerful.