I'd also question your comment about having nothing in particular to hide. Everyone has things they don't want to make public but perhaps you won't appreciate what they are until someone exposes them for you? You're using a pseudonym here but would you post the following information:
Who you are, where you live, how much you earn, whether you ever had any STIs, the last time you told a little white lie (to whom and and about what), whether you have kids (what school?).
If your reaction to the above is that it's none of my business, you'd be absolutely right but if you really have "nothing to hide" then why not post answers here for the world? Perhaps some of it is 'public' anyway and I could dig up and post it for you but if I did, how would you feel? My point here is that you do have many things you don't want broadcast to the world and I'm trying to provoke you into thinking about them. Privacy is a complex thing and you might find the following article interesting.
https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/12...
I'm in favour of making it harder for the seemingly casual surveillance to take place using means that already exist, like encryption and decentralised systems. If more devs etc took that view and built things that were properly secure by default then maybe things would be different. However, such systems aren't really compatible with advertising-based business models and there's a real trade-off in terms of speed to build (that's why - sometimes - 'security' feels like it's slapped on at the end).