I don't think there's much risk of people losing the right to abandon their privacy - much more likely is losing the right to maintain that privacy. How many p

I don't think there's much risk of people losing the right to abandon their privacy - much more likely is losing the right to maintain that privacy. How many people do you think are fully aware of what tracking they're subject to? Every time you hit a webpage, or see a "share on Facebook" button, or take a smartphone somewhere, that's another data point. Usually the concession of privacy is made before you know what you're agreeing to - you open a webpage, then see how many tendrils of user tracking you've just been touched by. If you want to talk about whether I should be able to sell my private information, absolutely. I can sell it for discounts (on insurance, say) or straight cash (see Datacoup) and that's my right. But it feels like burying the real issue to discuss that instead of the unannounced, implicit-consent tracking that defines most of our technology today.