Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.
Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.
Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.
I don't see how this argument relies on any property that's specific to privacy (as opposed to other desirable properties). Do you think privacy is special in that way, or that this applies to most similar properties too?
Random examples of properties that could be substituted for privacy and where I'm not sure whether they satisfy the conclusion: "net neutrality for phones" (ability to call anyone, regardless of their phone operator) or non-monopoly-inducing ticket prices on transit (a company can e.g. offer tickets at a price sublinear in distance, so that people will be disincentivized from combining different transit companies in one trip).
