He added that the great religious teachers spoke often in paradoxes. I also think a word we hear too little in discussions about privacy is anonymity. When we're out and about in public, we would rather be strangers than familiars. In fact we depend on it. Ask any celebrity what they like least about their status and they'll tell you it's the lost anonymity they traded for it.
Fame is a faustian bargain.
To be anonymous was to belong to a different tribe, or to no tribe at all. It was to be an enemy, frankly. When nobody knows us, we're easier to kill, easier to care less about, like Woody Guthrie's deportees . Which leads me to think it wouldn't be a bad thing if we all became more familiar to the whole human tribe. Permute weblogs to the whole world and we all become a lot less easy to devalue.