A life isn't sacred in and of itself, just because it is a life. If you devalue life to the point where the government owns your privacy, essentially owning you, it's worth less than a life of freedom. Fundamental freedom cannot be separated from privacy or even anonymity. Who has privacy and anonymity is more free than who does not. Now, if you can't be said to, by right, legal or otherwise, own your own information about yourself, and you have no control over that information, and governments or corporations are using it to control or influence the decisions you make, or control what you do or don't do, especially if you're not aware of it, then you are not free in any meaningful sense, not even if you're an American and the government is the US. The minute people started to be documented was the minute they started losing freedoms. Likewise when the government reserved the right to be less transparent than you.