| This sounds a lot like the the "I have nothing to hide so it doesn't matter who has my data argument," in which case here are a number of resources discussing why privacy matters and why you should care even if you have 'nothing to hide': https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter... https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565& https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/the_value_of_... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/im-be... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-even-law-abidi... https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-i... http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/surveillance-you-may-have-nothing... https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-... https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-is-innately-flawed-not... https://mashable.com/2013/06/13/julian-sanchez-nsa/ https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/why-nothing-to... Also, since you mention anonymization, many people have demonstrated how trivial it is to de-anonymize "anonymized data" particularly if you have access to multiple data sets https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf http://palms.princeton.edu/system/files/Quantification+of+De... http://www.yongyeol.com/papers/nilizadeh-deanon-2014.pdf https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3dkxyw/tracking-people-on... https://www.astonzhang.com/papers/social_deanony.pdf |
https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.htm...
You're arguing something different. I'm arguing that a sufficiently anonymized version of my data is not demonstrably harmful. You're arguing that privacy in general is important, which I would not dispute.