And yet...
In the U.S. people can bitch endlessly about how oppressed they are. They can go on an internationally-accessible forum and call the President names, take a dump on a picture of the leadership in a public park, march down the street with obscenity-laden signs, and say pretty much anything they like about their country, its history, its government, and its anatomically-impossible sexual habits.
And then they, like every other noisy activist in America, can sleep soundly at night, assured that they live in a free country.
Try that in China or Russia. Or a lot of other nations higher on that list than we are.
Privacy is only one part of a very large picture of freedom.