Privacy is good even when you have nothing to hide, but it is imperative for those who do need to be hidden. The ethical issues I generally see people concerned with are ethical issues with privacy itself, not a specific implementation.
Privacy is good even when you have nothing to hide, but it is imperative for those who do need to be hidden. The ethical issues I generally see people concerned with are ethical issues with privacy itself, not a specific implementation.
Heliocentrism, democracy, etc.
Without some degree of freedom to violate the majority's morality (or even one's parents' morality!) without judgement, we should expect society to stagnate due to arbitrary lock-in of the status quo on any sufficiently controversial issue.
Privacy is great because it lets groups violate the majority's morality invisibly, without flagrantly disrupting the sense the majority has of there being a moral order.
Privacy gives you the upside of social innovation without the downside of a generalized, diminished belief in the morality of others (which can be a downward spiral for societal self-organization.)