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I'll say it's less of a question of whether it affects privacy, it clearly does;
although some may consider it unimportant, the constantly increasing ability to track/identify people from very limited clues should make it ever more important in the very near future;
the more pertinent question is whether it affects privacy in a way that involves law;
possibly currently it may be that there is no specific law addressing the question of whether an OS desktop should provide default total privacy; however let's be clear there are obvious tendencies for paternalistic legislation in the area, think 'do not track' / treatment of facebook default privacy policy etc
as an OS should be legal in at least most important legal systems in the world, let's look particularly at for instance the EU's zeal for protecting consumer privacy in terms of data protection, it's really going to need a warning at first then configurability as a follow-up, it seems a relatively straightforward way of avoiding a whole heap of legal trouble up the road.