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> There are hundreds of people throughout history that quite literally gave their lives for privacy, as recent as one generation ago. No trolling at all; can y

• jimmy1 8y ago
  It was a claim by extension I must admit: You could technically say each American that dies, dies for our freedoms, one of which is our constitutional right to privacy. A specific example I had in mind was those who lost their lives fleeing East Germany and the Stasi: deciding to cross the wall or even talking about it often time resulted in your untimely death. Many people were gunned down trying to climb over. A general "people who died for privacy" netted some decent results as well.