We Are Open Books

Do you ever feel as if the government , business, just about anything institutional wants too much information about you? Here the social security number is the key to open he door to droves of stored information, bank accounts, just about anything ever written down about a person. When we apply for anything now, it seems there is always a trove of questions about our personal preferences and our past. Is this rally necessary and /or good?
I think not. We have become a society in quest of knowing "everything" about each other, and this is not good. Humans were meant to have an out-of-bounds space, a place where they may live in private and their behaviors and thoughts be unrecognized. But in life today there seems to be a screening test for everything. Interview for a job and there are character and intelligence tests, a prison background check, fingerprinting is likely, even crazy "genetic analysis" test that supposedly predict future behavior or medical conditions.
I wonder if humans are so programmable and whether these kinds of measurements are needed or just an invasion of privacy. I think not. All one need to do is look at how the media spies on celebrities, even digs in their trash cans to find out anything that might interest the a star enamored fan. Maybe the media is becoming the "Big Brother" George Orwell wrote about in his novel "1984".Yet, most people don't seem to object to the loss of privacy and self this brings about. But why do others have the right to know everything about us? We all have both sunny and dark sides, and part of being human is the intellect we have to choose which to reveal. When we are profiled and our private moments revealed it is a kind of psychological rape because most such profiling serves no purpose other than to bring voyeuristic pleasure to those who read or hear about others in order to gain false sense of self esteem.
Do we really need to know about Britney Spear's latest personal meltdown in order to feel better about ourselves? Does your employer have the right to DNA test you to see if alcoholism or drug addiction is a genetic possibility? Can the life insurance company you approach about buying a policy order you to have genetic testing done to determine the "possibility" of cancer before selling you that policy you want?
I don't blame some of the testers and snoopers for being weak and givingin to wanting to know all of it. It benefits them or their business to do so. Yet the higher good, the right of we individuals, is compromised in the process. Are we all open books? I hope not. The mystery and wonder of humanity is the fact that some of our chapters are only half open and the remainder to be revealed by us when and if we want.
Isn't our DNA, our privacy our own? Sigh..it seems increasingly not to be the case in our world of triviality and self gratification.