... there is nothing like a 'private home' online, because we don't sleep there, and we don't need toilets or showers there. So a lot of the privacy issues in the real world — like what the police can seize without a warrant, or whether you have to admit your identity when asked — don't really play online. Online privacy is seldom about private property, but about access to information.

The Decade Of Publicy, January 2, 2010.