You don't need to empathize. You simply need to respect privacy. People have lost privacy, and that's an issue to address directly rather than take privacy away from others.
I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand.
Zuckerberg and his ilk got rich destroying my privacy, but somehow it's unseemly for me to not respect their privacy? Privacy for me but not for thee?
I don't fucking think so.
...which is exactly how all of their revolutions have gone in practice...
Jealousy is a powerful intoxicant.