[betaby]

> Privacy does not protect you from the state. Privacy is good enough to protect you from the public.

Public doesn't care mostly. Governments on the other hand...

[habitue]

The public includes online mobs who send you death threats. It definitely matters to protect your identity from the public

[littlestymaar]

The “public” also means the private industrial sector, and nowadays they are by far the biggest threat for people living in the Western world.

[dheera]

The public might care if you are rich, influential, or conventionally highly attractive, in which case privacy is a good thing to have.