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Awhile back I read a trilogy of books called “The Iron Harvest.” Going in, I didn’t really buy the premise, but book 1 was on sale for either free or around a dollar. The premise was a near future where privacy ceased to exist. People had figured out how to make it so people could experience any past event through the eyes as a person who was there. They couldn’t change anything, but they could be in the moment as the person participating in it. I wound buying all three books.
In the past 5 or so years, I’m believing the premise more and more. What little privacy we still have will continue to be eroded away.
For another interesting take on privacy in the future, take a look at Brian K Vaughn's The Private Eye graphic novel.
In that world, everyone's privacy was lost "when the cloud burst", revealing every private kink, writing, messages, etc for everyone including the rich and powerful. The response was a hard turn towards absolute privacy via avatars.
Plus the art style is great.
http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye
Another interesting exploration is in Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter. New technology allows creating light-passing micro-wormholes at any location (and time!), erasing privacy nearly entirely. At first, tabloids run wild with "shocking" photos of famous people, but eventually the hype dies. There are people who outright do lewd things in public ("anyone can see me at any time anyway"), some go about their life as usual, and some join secret groups who meet in the dark and use touch language for the deaf-blind.