The British House of Lords, by definition one of the most elitist government arms in the world, released a report condemning the amount of public surveillence in the U.K. The august wigwearers claimed that privacy is crucial to individual freedom, the means by which one can live one's life without submitting to the artificial standards of others. In other words, everyone's got something to hide, and rightly so.
I don't see this argument for governments or corporations. On them, IMO, falls the onus to prove why they shouldn't tell us all. I have little power; they have tons.
Wikileaks is the greatest thing to happen to the world since the fall of the Soviet Union. The attempt by the Powers That Be to put us back in the dark, hopefully (to them) for keeps, speaks for itself.
People got embarassed? Good.