>> Privacy as we knew it is dead. It died a long time ago; hell you could probably argue that it started to die the first time anyone published a phone book bec

>> Privacy as we knew it is dead. It died a long time ago; hell you could probably argue that it started to die the first time anyone published a phone book because if I knew your name then I could figure out where you lived. A quibble, but perhaps not a minor one. Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing. While it's possible to argue that the U.S. constitution confers a right of privacy, I am not aware of any serious argument that it also confers a right of anonymity.