The supposedly utopian "society without secrets" presents an interesting problem to me. Let's set aside the issues of personal liberty and agency for a moment. Let's assume for a moment that we can all agree: no privacy, no secrets, and everyone knowing everything is just safer. We have run the magical calculations and we can be absolutely sure that the government will be kept in check. (It's ridiculous I know; bear with me.)

Okay. But we are human beings. We value our privacy, whether we know it or not. We evolved that way. There is a reason intimacy involves sharing things we usually hide from others. In a society without secrecy, what would it mean to "get to know" someone? What would it mean to fall in love? Would we even get to do that anymore?

Imagine what that world would be? A world without the excitement of meeting and discovering over time who someone is. I am not saying this is definitive proof that privacy advocates are objectively correct. It is simply something to think about.