Everyone has stupid things like that. But the reason for hiding, is that if only your secrets are unveiled, other people will use them against you!

But if everyone's secrets are unveiled, everyone benefit's. (e.g. you might learn that your wife hates you too, and that everyone likes to pick a nose:)

The problem isn't that people loose their privacy, the problem is that government get's to keep it's privacy, and government shouldn't have any privacy in the first place!