It's a typical trade-off. There are two active changes here. This has been reinforced by the development of message systems. Second, the phenomenal progress in communication in recent years has undermined public support for privacy. A third factor, and I think a significant one, is the re-alignment of popular loyalty.
Large societies are products of the age of print.
In an age of fast, easy communication, artifacts like countries grow to appear unreal and arbitrary. People are coming to prefer to deal directly with one another, and personal loyalties are out- weighing loyalties to abstractions like country and society. Report problems with the web pages to the maintainer .