Privacy already is a luxury product and has been. The very wealthy can afford massive private properties to separate themselves from others, can hire people to

Privacy already is a luxury product and has been. The very wealthy can afford massive private properties to separate themselves from others, can hire people to do things for them as proxies through an array of mechanisms, etc. Traditionally wealth in the case it draws fame made it a little less obvious. Famous people walking in public seem to have less privacy. To be realistic though it's not that fame lead instrinicly to less privacy, it's that fame drew attention and attention is what reduced privacy. The reason I can walk around the grocery store down the street and Joe Biden can't isn't privacy related, we ultimately have the same levels of privacy, it's that no one is interested that I'm picking up donuts unlike if it's Joe Biden, they will care. They have the same level of information access really. This changes in a surveillance economy. Ultimately people who want to extract wealth from me, be it marketers, advertisers, or employers have always had some degree of attention towards me (the royal me, all of us consumers and workers). The issue is their attention was too costly to be worth looking at me. As surveillance technology grows more affordable and ubiquitous, that changes a bit and giving attention and even monitoring me becomes economically feasible. Suddenly, the privacy I thought I had (privacy through obscurity) has disappeared. The difference between me and Joe Biden or some other famous or perhaps wealthy person is that they tend to have some degree of options of buying back or controlling privacy. Their body guards, private estates, proxies and so on. In a world where everyone has attention, the financial ability to hide one's self makes it clear that as with most things, wealth let's you buy more of these things we often considered rights before.