The price of individualism has proved to be the loss of privacy
This article draws conclusions not in evidence, and thinking about this more broadly there is nothing about individualism that requires a loss of privacy.  On the contrary, I myself, as most staunch individualists, are also privacy advocates, and we structure our lives to both preserve our individuality and freedom, and privacy is a central point of that.  What external structures do not know about you cannot be used to manipulate or control you, so privacy is a bedrock cornerstone of individual liberty and the individualist movement.<p>Their example of doorbell cameras especially falls flat to me, because most people (including myself) are motivated to have a doorbell camera due to our own individual issues and not to support police dragnet surveillance.  Some folks, myself included, even have made the effort to use doorbell cameras that are not cloud connected and record video locally on NVR so that this data can&#x27;t be shared without our explicit permission.  There is nothing about these situations that &#x2F;requires&#x2F; a loss of privacy, and the causal link assumed in this article is not established within.  It&#x27;s simply the case that every major tech company is incentivized to create systems that destroy privacy because they can more effectively monetize on our data and government agencies turn a blind eye because they also benefit from the loss of privacy in the private sector.  It takes technical acumen and effort to ensure your privacy while still taking care to utilize modern technology, and the majority of people, even in the tech industry, do not have the necessary technical acumen to do so.<p>This is clearly a problem, but it&#x27;s not a trade-off between individualism and privacy, it&#x27;s a trade-off between the greed of dystopian multi-national megacorps and privacy.