Great article +1 to The Guardian which is becoming a favorite source of things to read.<p>Good point at the end about privacy not really being about hiding dark secrets. Privacy is a psychological benefit. I argue that privacy is a basic human right.<p>Re: writing diaries: I sort of do this, but in the cloud. I write a ton of stuff for just myself in the form of organized notes. For things that should not be public, like research on medical problems, I like to keep notes in SpiderOak (encrypted cloud storage). For other things that are for myself but not sensitive tools like OneNote and Keep are fine.