> There is not generally an expectation of privacy in public.

Which is entirely different from an expectation of a generalized systematic loss of practical privacy in public.

They are not even close to the same thing.

The willingness to kneel to others baffles me. Loss of practical privacy is loss of power - to somebody(s). It may not seem so for one person. But when it is true for everyone, the system will adapt to using that power.

Throw in AI and data integration. This is clearly a B.A.D. idea.