Why doesn't steem respect your right to privacy? Steem doesn't force anyone to disclose anything and makes no reservations about "safeguarding" what you post. A right to privacy would be if they extended certain controls that would limit what people can see from your posting. Remember Steem was never meant to be a Status Update Facebook Killer, it was and still is a Transparent, Censorship Proof, Public Forum, much more resembling all other internet forums minus their built in chat and messaging systems.

If you want to store private data on a PUBLIC place you better encode it.