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I'm still known by the clerks of the stores in my neighborhood. That's completely orthogonal to this.

The reason this type of discussion of privacy wasn't being had 30 years ago is because 99.9% of the things we did 30 years ago were private, outside of getting arrested as an adult and, eventually, drivers' license info. If I didn't want to be recognized while buying birth control or hemorrhoid medication, I would just have to go to a store that I didn't usually go to.

Also, of course, 1890: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_%28articl...



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