I was pointing out that sometimes governments need to restrict privacy rights for a variety of reasons or think about limits to privacy rights, whether for service improvements or service integration in terms of information sharing, or for a whole host of security reasons when information is shared for a variety of reasons in terms of focusing on public safety and things of that sort.
I wasn't suggesting that governments don't respect privacy rights. I'm just suggesting that privacy is one consideration that governments need to balance with other considerations. Nora Young's point was more that citizens need to have a certain sense of responsibility for their own data ownership and to be thinking about what transpires with their data and doing their best to try to understand it.