Privacy puts a limit on power. A direct consequence of “knowledge is power”. Others would find it difficult to exert power/influence over someone they know little to nothing about.
You’d probably struggle to find an Authoritarian state that has not encouraged the degradation of privacy for this very reason.
Privacy encourages the free-flow of ideas, good and bad. Particularly dissent.
Privacy puts a limit on power. A direct consequence of “knowledge is power”. Others would find it difficult to exert power/influence over someone they know little to nothing about. You’d probably struggle to find an Authoritarian state that has not encouraged the degradation of privacy for this very reason.
Privacy encourages the free-flow of ideas, good and bad. Particularly dissent.