Though, the words "right to privacy" does not actually show up in our Constitution, such rights are implicit within our law of the land, with often the Fourth Amendment constituting such, as it states that: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…" Yet, the way that social media is setup and the way that we are identified through our online activities of all sorts, creating digital footprints by the very usage of our cell phones, emails, text messages, and website activity, of which, most of this, is being accomplished within a prism which allows explicitly or implicitly for our information to be monitored, correlated, analyzed and viewed, essentially eviscerates any rights or expectation of privacy that we would in general, like to control.
That is to say, the terms and conditions for all the social media and websites that we interact with, or the hi-technology devices that we utilize, are not really in our control, but are actually in the control of mega-corporations that may well use such data for our betterment, but in many cases, use such data basically for the exploitation of its customer base, primarily, in order to make money or create revenue in one form or another. Additionally, such mega-corporations have a vested interest in being on the right side of the government that regulates and taxes such entities, so that, whether done deliberately or reluctantly, such data often ends up in the hands of the government, no matter how much this has supposedly being obscured in such a manner, to protect the identity of individuals.
When mega-corporations as well as governmental agencies know everything about you, because they are able to follow your digital footprint from your cell phone to your car, to your laptop, and to your credit and debit cards, they have an incredible amount of actionable information, that allows them to have a complete profile of your proclivities, of which, significant parts of such information, would be of the type that you would not voluntarily admit to in public, yet, it is in the public view, for those all-seeing entities.
This then means, that our privacy is no longer in our hands, for it is essentially out of our hands, so that, whether such entities have our best interests in mind or not, they have enough information on us, to be able to compromise us, and this then is a form of awesome power and control. It is one thing to live one's life in a fishbowl, such as a celebrity, but celebrities are very well compensated and have consciously made that tradeoff of sacrificing privacy for fame and/or money. It is an entirely different thing, though, when your average citizen, is basically exposed completely at a fundamental level, of which, that never was their purposeful intention, nor was it their purposeful desire, nor does it appear that they can ever turn the bright intruding lights off.
The social media sites that we visit and the hi-technology tools that we daily use, should be, fundamentally, for our benefit, instead they are used as a powerful clear portal into our very being, for those that have no privacy are prisoners of those privileged few that see everything and hear everything, for they then know everything and that god-like knowing gives them the power to manipulate and to thereby control us, which means they basically own us.