Actually you've never had any real privacy in your lifetime.

Anyone with a bank account on which they make any transaction divulges sufficient information to more people than they can count. The "hard-copy" for each and every exchange passes through (conservatively) a dozen hands. The information is stored on networks that can be accessed and distributed internationally. And it's pretty much always been that way.

The fact you think you have any privacy at all rests on certain ppl doing certain jobs every day and not "crossing lines" so to speak. With digital transactions (on-line, debt-card, electronic chequing, credit card....) you surrender sufficient information to have -yourself- recreated a thousand times.

It works on trust....rather scary...