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if you want anonymity and unprecedented privacy, you have to make it yourself and trust no one to do it for you.
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I don't think you can have "anonymity and unprecedented privacy" on the Internet. Sure, you can make yourself less visible and more secure, but forget hiding from the government or even local law enforcement. They even found Osama bin Laden who communicated by hand written notes passed by subordinates. There are just too many connections made every day to the Internet to make disconnecting either feasible or desirable for most of us. In exchange we must put up with the knowledge that a bit of our privacy is at risk. Luckily, for most of us we are not direct targets of anyone and have nothing to hide from law enforcement. Sure, there are rogue cops, phishing expeditions, various scams and hacks, etc., but as I stated most of us are not being targeted directly. You simply can't participate in the modern world without using the Internet and therefore we must take some risk or else live on a mountaintop in a log cabin.
Let's just say you figure out how to create your own totally anonymous email server and then only connect to the Internet via some totally anonymous connection. But, how do you prevent your name, address, and phone number from being published in public databases? Never get a driver's license? Don't drive a car? Don't rent an apartment or buy a house? Don't vote? Here in the USA all of these things are totally public records that are easily accessible and have to be accurate or they don't work. Many cities how have license plate scanning cameras all over the place and even on police cars that can track every movement of your car, and now lots of places have facial recognition too. The list of ways you can be tracked go on and on.