In such situations the line between voluntary and involuntary disclosure becomes blurred, and the notion of autonomy or control begins to erode. Absolute control of one's personal information requires complete isolation, in which case identity ceases to exist at all. When considering positive legal rights to privacy, one must confront the question whether it is in society's best interest that control of one's identity via control of personal information be granted exclusively to the individual, as something like a property right. We had not expected him to be have been able to do such a thing. On the other hand we probably would expect such a thing from the person who vacuums the White House carpets.
Power often rests on opacity.
For example, a nervous attorney arguing before the Supreme Court might imagine Justice Rehnquist sitting on the toilet, robe hiked up, in order to deconstruct all the formal structures that depersonalize and dehumanize him, and thereby to alleviate the effects of psychological oppression such structures are intended to create.