[themagician]

This is no different than how people viewed the idea of using your real name online pre- and post-Facebook.

Privacy erodes naturally. It is inventible. The benefits outweigh the costs almost always. The need of the many outweighs the needs of the few.

The future is one in which humans are recognized, at least by the machines, as being more like a single organism than a group of individuals.

[XorNot]

I would argue the opposite is true: the perfectly anonymous population can have policy and management at only the broadest granularities of abstraction.

Data collection is all about machines being able to treat you as an individual.