Finger service and privacy controversy

I read an interesting article

https://www.bortzmeyer.org/finger-vie-privee.html

about one of the first privacy controversies in the beginnings of internet. The problematic did not change a lot since late 70s, but political views are quite different now: progressive people are more inclined to defend privacy and conservative ones to defend the business friendly statu quo.

The article is written in french, but I suppose automatic translation will do a better job than my own english writings!