Opting Out is Socially Neutral?

One would have thought that opting out of providing information that you might think is your own personal business would be your own choice.   Essentially socially neutral.   But some of the recent experience from Germans opting out of Google Streetview seems to indicate otherwise.  There you can blur out streetview images of your property, opting out of that service.    A recent article in Concurring Opinions provides some detail.