ffwd said that you needed to be an anarcho-capitalist to want absolute privacy. To have a "proper society" (one where government can arrest murderers, say), you have to have some transparency. (Because if I'm a murderer, and I do the murder in the privacy of my own home, and there is absolute privacy, the government can't ever find out, much less prove, that I did it.)

For the proper functioning of government for the legitimate benefit of society, there is a balance between privacy and transparency. The government is going beyond that balance, seeking more transparency. The anarchists go the opposite direction, seeking more (preferably total) privacy. Neither is in the public interest.