The issue with privacy, and the reason it has such an image problem, is that society can be split up into 3 groups:
* People who believe authority figures are fundamentally acting in good faith (large majority).
* People who believe authority figures are acting in bad faith (substantial minority)
* People who want to deploy authority to make others do what they want.
Group 3 want privacy to have an image problem, and they are persistent in their attacks.
Privacy is a tool for the second group to convince the first to coordinate with them. The first group won't accept arguments that authority figures might potentially act in bad faith. Therefore, the argument must be made that people have fundamental rights to privacy that a good faith authority figure will not want to infringe.
It is a matter of taste what people want to believe the % breakdown of society is into those 3 groups, but try going in to a discussion arguing that authorities might in the future act in bad faith. It is remarkably difficult to carry a debate with that frame despite substantial evidence.