@Frank Apisa,
Frank Apisa wrote:As you know, I personally think that in the long run the loss of privacy will be seen more as a good thing than a bad one.
Already
Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230) the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets wrote:
joch sint iedoch gedanke frî ("yet still thoughts are free").
Die Gedanken sind frei ("thoughts are free") is a German song about the freedom of thought from about 1810.
Since the days of the Carlsbad Decrees and the Age of Metternich, "Die Gedanken sind frei" was a popular protest song against political repression and censorship, especially among the banned Burschenschaften student fraternities. In the aftermath of the failed 1848 German Revolution the song was proscribed.
I do hope to have your support at least for the privacy of thoughts.