[throwaway72587]

This is 100% wrong. Privacy has been the norm every time someone wandered a week by feet from home, or sent a letter. Famous authors published for a whole lifetime under pseudonyms.

We are living in a panopticon that never existed before.

[pif]

> every time someone wandered a week by feet from home

Remote privacy means that you don't have to move from home.

> or sent a letter

Which anybody could just intercept and read.

> Famous authors published for a whole lifetime under pseudonyms.

But someone had to know who they were and where they lived, and they could be convinced to share such information.