"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it".

This is what Scott McNealy, back then CEO of Sun Microsystems, said in 1999. [1]

He was probably right. But is it acceptable?

Eric Schmidt of Google thinks along the same lines: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. [2]

Very Puritan.

It's almost as if "trasparency" will sanitise and help eliminate vices or imperfections from the world. And very corporate, because we should not forget that Google prospers by gathering data on billions of people.

In this worldview, privacy is not a right, but a subterfuge for those who have something to hide. And you don't want to hide anything from Google and Facebook, do you?

But it's only thanks to privacy that we can choose to be who we want to be. Unfortunately, it's becoming harder and harder to choose to have a private life. [3]