"society has clearly chosen transparency over privacy"

Instead of society, read political elite.

A random voter cannot choose a politician who is totally aligned with him on all thousand important topics. Much less so in America, a two-party system, where your choice is binary.

As a result, whatever the top brass does with regard to most topics, is what they want, not what society wants.

Notably, big business and important people still enjoy a lot of economic privacy that is being denied to us.