Couldn't agree more. Anonymity (i.e. privacy) is human right regulated by UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, if nowhere else in your country. One should learn from the history, not ignore it.

Additionally, i personally believe that privacy is one of few (if not the only efficient one) peaceful tools that ppl have to motivate their states to reorganize and optimize itself, if/when corruption gets out of control - i.e. when corruption is that large that fair elections are not possibility anymore, or when fair elections are possible but don't change anything. This second part may be hard to understand for someone that lives in well organized country, but there are really fu*ked up countries in the World.