Quote Originally Posted by Photolysis View Post
Politicians are in the public spotlight because they are servants of, and accountable to the public in a democracy, and there is a need-to-know basis for certain information because they're representing your interests. As a result they give up some privacy, though they are still entitled to a private life. It would be totalitarian if it went both ways because there is no valid justification for creating such symmetry. I need to know certain aspects of a politician's life, they do NOT need to know certain aspects of mine. Likewise, in certain cases this might be reversed, depending on the context and reasoning.
I'm not talking about "should" here, I'm talking about "will," as in "Information will be free." As media companies are having so much trouble learning, law is not enough to make data stay where you want it and behave. As long as channels of transmission continue to multiply (or even if they stayed at current levels), information will get out.

Whether or not we're "entitled" to privacy as a "right," it's entirely possible that we no longer live in a world where it's a possibility.