"As I've repeated endlessly, the reason powerful conservatives are so happy to take away your right to privacy is because they know that the rich and the powerful always have that right. Money and power buys it. You can get a birth control pill, get an abortion, vote for who you want, associate with who you want, and no one will nose in your business because they fear offending you, since you can really fuck their life up with your power. They don't think privacy is a right. They think it is a privilege that belongs to their class and their class alone. Diamond necklaces, furs, a yacht, political influence and a door you can close are in the same category--luxury items that you have to pay through the nose for."