People have reasonable expectations of privacy. They expect their phone calls not to be recorded. They expect that their emails are treated with the same invio

People have reasonable expectations of privacy. They expect their phone calls not to be recorded. They expect that their emails are treated with the same inviolability as their letters were. They expect their letters to be as they were before the advent of technologies that governments are now using to mass record the contents of letters without opening them, of which technologies and practices they have no knowledge. All of these expectations, and many more, are now ritually violated in the most outrageous manner. It isn’t the responsibility of the individual to combat every violation of his person. Not only is it an unreasonable expectation for society’s “default setting” to be the casual violation of its citizens, but it’s also literally impossible for even the richest, smartest, and most diligent among us to avoid getting screwed... in some way... when there are so, so, SO many ways to get screwed. Because, in 2019, if your highest priority is NOT getting screwed, you might literally have to live alone in a cabin in the mountains. Which is why you can take your atomic-individual libertarian “oh you “just” need to somehow avoid every omnipresent feature of contemporary life” and take a fucking hike. I demand the right to walk to the grocery, buy a sandwich, walk to the park, eat the sandwich, and walk home, without having my minute-by-minute location invisibly and undetectably recorded and sent to ANY corp/gov, my purchase recorded and sent to ANY corp/gov, my face/gait/person scanned and analyzed by ANY corp/gov, etc. and so forth. And I should have to take no special action for any of this, because this is the default setting.