Speak for yourself. Being a conservative, I have an expectation of privacy on the internet.
Your expectation is a false one.
Remember- the internet is a loosely coupled collection of government and corporate zones of control. You pay a private entity that provides you access and in return gives you a traceable number, where they record all your activity. These private corporations are possibly liable for your activities.
You frequent sites that generally have a terms of use that says your activity will be monitored. Every file you touch is associated with your ip address - and is thus traceable back to you - both on the website’s logs, and on your isp’s logs.
Cookies are planted on your computer to track what sites you frequent - third parties provide weather, desktop searching, screensavers and other tools that covertly analyze your computer use and directs advertisers to your likes and dislikes so that they can more accurately target you with ads.
In short - you can expect privacy all you want. It doesn’t exist on the internet. Your ISP is already required to monitor you and keeps logs X number on behalf of the government or any person who wants to serve them with a subpeona. Just as you shouldn’t expect privacy when selling drugs on a street corner or murdering someone in full view of a survellliance camera, you shouldn’t expect privacy when you are stealing, hacking, distributing child pornography or download music on the internet.
Welcome to the real world.
Merely a myth.
The only way privacy comes about on the internet is through personal respect.
Something this country has lost a lot of.