Investing in alternatives is laudable but Bill Gates should support the only credible path to avert an unlivable earth: a worldwide progressive ban on fossil fuels and plastics made with fossil fuels. Then invest billions in alternatives.
That's the point. We increasingly can't control the information about everything we do, but we trust and have the right that the neighbor who accidentally saw us does the right thing.
Schneier says the right to privacy is a right to control personal information. While that's true, it's only part of it, and it doesn't capture the fundamental problem of privacy. The fundamental problem is about those situations where you can look into your neighbor's back yard, but you decide not to do so. It's therefore more of a civil obligation. The corresponding right for the neighbor is to have the expectation of not being watched.