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This only doesn't blow my mind because I've noticed a distinct trend among the most vocal "right to privacy" folks: they want to get away with anti-social behavior.

I'm admittedly biased from spending a few years steeped in the cryptocurrency community, where literally everything has a hidden (or not!) self-serving agenda, however. But even beyond that realm, I see far too many privacy advocates whose examples of "reasons why you should want privacy" end up being examples of hiding bad behavior (infidelity, etc). If you couple this with anti-social people being privacy advocates out of necessity, it ends up reflecting very poorly on the privacy community as a whole.