Sri Lanka, Jan. 16 -- Should public figures have private lives? This is probably a question that has been asked and answered countless times across time and space.
A related question would be 'can public figures have private lives?' Again an old question but one to which the 'possible' response has and is becoming increasingly muted courtesy technological innovation and surveillance complexities that are hard to notice and even harder to keep track of.
It is not the case that people didn't know about others' lives prior to privacy-wrecking innovations. People talk. People notice. People put two and two together. People perceive. People draw conclusions. And if the perception are negative, all other factors being equal, it could cost the...