Comment by throwaway72587
6 hours ago
This is 100% wrong. Privacy has been the norm every time someone wandered a week by feet from home, or sent a letter. Famous authors published for a whole lifetime under pseudonyms.
We are living in a panopticon that never existed before.
> every time someone wandered a week by feet from home
Remote privacy means that you don't have to move from home.
> or sent a letter
Which anybody could just intercept and read.
> Famous authors published for a whole lifetime under pseudonyms.
But someone had to know who they were and where they lived, and they could be convinced to share such information.