I conversely am confused by the amount of knee-jerk reaction to the word "privacy" people here have.

> I mean we had these before in other very similar topics regarding e.g. Snowden leaks but really a lot of things. So.. uh..

Yes, exactly. Now consider that the world kept on spinning anyway, and the revelations from the aforementioned leaks turned out to have exactly zero impact on the vast majority of people.

To be clear: I'm not questioning the ethical importance of all that privacy talk, just practical importance. It's bad that we don't have more control and protection of our data by default, but at the same time, excepting few people and organizations, the impact is so small in practice that it's not worth the energy spent being so militant about it.