[PeterWhittaker]

If you're out in public, you agree to be seen

More like some accept this grudgingly, as, until recently, with the near-ubiquity of delivery services, there were, for many, simply no choice: Stay at home, unseen, and starve, or venture out for groceries, et al.

Public space serves at least two distinct purposes that we conflate at risk to both privacy and freedom: transit and public life. Not all who need the former want the latter, but our physical world does not permit them to have one without the other.