David Brin wrote a lot a few years back about information transparency and the extinction of privacy being inevitable, and I think he's probably right. His point was that it applies equally to public figures like politicians and corporations as it does to private citizens--more so, in fact, because more people are watching the President and Mansanto than are watching Joe Blow in Poughkeepsie. It's not totalitarian if it cuts both ways. Only if an imbalance of information exists--through, for instance, an imbalance of technology--is the disappearance of privacy a threat to liberty.