When you think about it, when governments made laws that required all children to have standardized names in order to be able to tax them and register them for

When you think about it, when governments made laws that required all children to have standardized names in order to be able to tax them and register them for military service, it was one of the first privacy invasions. For us it seems natural to have a first and a second name following some rules, but for them, the new law took away their freedom to be called what they wanted when they wanted. And we are facing similar situations today - with internet regulation and so on. Of course, this is quite an abstract idea - people of that time surely had more serious problems than this.