I would argue ease-of-use and lower costs should be factored into all sorts of privacy decisions. The easiest thing to point at is public records: at some point

I would argue ease-of-use and lower costs should be factored into all sorts of privacy decisions. The easiest thing to point at is public records: at some point one's phone number and address were distributed in a paper book to a geographically related area. Now there are countless websites that aggregate your phone numbers and addresses over years, publish that information online, and make it easily searchable. These are not the same impact to privacy yet they use largely the same legal justification. Taken to the extreme, someone should not be able to record every currently-legal moment of your life using any means using the same legal argument as hiring a PI and/or a helicopter.