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Individual privacy and anonymity matter substantially less when Governments are basically decent and play by the rules, and so it seems there is a tendency to value convenience and utility over privacy and anonymity.

When Government goes bad, suddenly we are faced with the utmost need for privacy and anonymity, but we may by then be in a situation where privacy and anonymity are difficult to obtain, with all the consequences that then flow from that.

>>casenm+(OP)
Yeah, that's what a lot of us have been saying for decades.

But notice that Google is doing this as the government in its home country is going bad (or at least getting dramatically, qualitatively worse than it has already been).

Some people see features where others see bugs.