More often than not, "privacy" is merely used as an argument to avoid change and slow down progress, though. During the pandemic, for example, remote work tool

More often than not, "privacy" is merely used as an argument to avoid change and slow down progress, though. During the pandemic, for example, remote work tools were routinely criticised or even banned in Germany due to their supposed privacy implications - with schools and public administration often having been the worst offenders. There were civil servants who were "working from home", but in fact couldn't do any actual work because they were not allowed to access their department's intranet from home. There were even teachers who refused to use video conferencing solutions for teaching their classes. While some of that criticism regarding privacy issues with some of those tools might even have been valid, without suggesting a viable alternative, such criticism is pointless and detrimental, because all it achieves is to promote inertia and the status quo.