That's rather disturbing. This is why storing everything on everyone is a terrible idea. Insiders with loyalties that may lie with a particular Old Boys' club, with access to the most intimate details of people's lives.
Strict rules with regard to access control are meaningless if the people abusing the system are either sufficiently high-level or are able to use side channels.
Perhaps we need to embrace the Panopticon instead of resisting it.
Really store everything on everyone and make it _available_ to _everyone_ instead of the privileged few.
Make only one rule on access control: it is forbidden to refuse access.
Edit: on -> one
Your political enemies can also use it to google you up, find what you're up to, and night-of-the-long-knives you first. You've already blown it by writing this post, so it's on Your Permanent Record For All To See.
Once the panopticon's switched on, YOUR first priority, Sunset, is to make sure you don't have any enemies who care enough to check out your posting history, because once they hit this post, you're toast. Concentrate on being super-nice to everyone you meet for the rest of your life.
See how this works? You're already out of the running as Evil Dictator Overlord. This everyone-sees-everything society is starting to look a bit less dystopian than it first appears!
You'd end up with a conservative theocracy in short order. Only the perfectly conformist have nothing to hide; those people who beat their wives or children in the normal, socially approved manner will be safe.
Not quite. My opinions aren't a secret IRL. I am surrounded by like minded individuals and am not afraid to voice my ideas freely.
There is a serious difference in the way I approach weapons training/survival and the way my ideological opponents do. So I am not that concerned.
But this is not the point. The point is, people will rebel if you put them into a corner.