| The issue at hand for "techno-libertarians" is not necessarily about privacy, but rather about life and property. There are three issues that libertarians will tend to agree are most important, which is usually summarized with being a natural right to life, liberty, and property. 1) The government forces companies to hand over customer information (property). 2) The government forcibly outlaws citizens to engage in certain commerce (property). 3) The government forcibly bars people from consuming goods they want (life). To greatly summarize these three issues: 1) Whether the data is considered to be owned by the company or ourselves, either way it is private property and should have an extremely high barrier to acquire through a warrant. 2) Free trade is an obviously libertarian principle. 3) You own your body, and you are free to consume unhealthy substances as such, which is a fairly accepted natural right. Privacy in an of itself is not necessarily a natural right, rather, the data owned by you or a company is considered private property. |