Neither exists in a vacuum. Technology changes culture and culture shapes the use of technology. Nevertheless, anytime you have people highly incentivized to us

Neither exists in a vacuum. Technology changes culture and culture shapes the use of technology. Nevertheless, anytime you have people highly incentivized to use data, and the data exists, it will be used. And in fact our use of technology definitely contributed to this, even when it seemed very innocuous. Logging is invaluable for testing and troubleshooting, forum posts, DMs, login data, and tweets obviously have more value as things that are non-ephemeral...but what you do by logging everything, what you do by having an Internet where things are by default non-ephemeral is change exactly this societal expectation. Going back to the helicopter example in this thread, would we argue that the government shouldn't be allowed to look at the aerial view on maps.google.com? The very existence of this service changed what people understood as private.