> When everybody has dirt on everybody else, it gets a whole lot harder to shame someone. That point of view is a credible hypothesis. Despite being a defender

> When everybody has dirt on everybody else, it gets a whole lot harder to shame someone. That point of view is a credible hypothesis. Despite being a defender of privacy, I too have wondered whether perfect knowledge, perfectly distributed, might lead to some kind of utopia that we can hardly imagine. But that's all speculation. I don't want to count on it. It seems equally plausible to me that the abolition of privacy will lead to a nightmare scenario in which everyone has dirt on everyone else, and it's ruthlessly exploited. Everyone is throwing stones from their glass houses. In that scenario, people would no doubt adapt. They would learn to calculate their every action, every facial expression. This is the source of the stress to which I alluded.