You may be correct (and I suspect you are) that autonomy leads to a better privacy situation. That said, I can imagine quite a few different privacy situations that people seem to like. There are wonderful network services (nearly every Mediawiki installation) that basically say that they don’t do private data (or rather, it’s all open, or all closed). There are others that have much more nuanced privacy policies. Most importantly, I think people can have very different ideas about what constitutes a good approach to privacy while being completely in sync with each other when it comes to the core issues of technological empowerment and autonomy.

In other words, I think that we can build a stronger coalition around autonomy and network services by leaving out the discussions of privacy and agree that a good privacy situation (or a multiplicity of privacy situations to fit different definitions of good) will sort itself out.