Mike on Nostr: Agreed with your first point. Your second point, also agreed, but isn't that true for ...

Agreed with your first point.

Your second point, also agreed, but isn't that true for life itself.

We all have things or aspects about us in the semi-public domain (perhaps just friends and family) that we'd prefer wasn't known.

As for collective data and privacy. The concept of Big Brother is both true and not true.

Yes, everything you don't want known about you is mostly known by Big Brother. However if Big Brother knows everything about everybody that they didn't want know, then whats the advantge.

For example the scam where you get an email saying "You've been captured watching porn, if you don't send X amount, then we will release that to the world".

Well generally, you have been watching porn, but the scammer doesn't know that, but everybody knows it probably true, so where's the scam?

Even if the scammer had the video of you watching the porn, so what?

The scam wins because you have been watching porn and society treats it as a taboo, which it isn't.

Remove convention and you remove the scam.