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Second of all, you have it backwards. The left-wing supports PRIVACY, even if it means letting some crimes go unsolved. The RIGHT WING supports authoritarianism (aka the 'morals police': injecting church into state, judging what kind of sexuality is immoral, violating communications laws to put citizens under surveillance in order to 'stop terrorism,' spying on your neighbors, 'If you're not guilty then you have nothing to hide,' etc).
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Actually, that's not exactly true. There is an authoritarian right and there is an authoritarian left. For example, we have cultural conservatives on the Right who, as you point out, want to legislate morality and then, on the Left, we have an authoritarian impulse as well with people who want to centrally plan economies, control what people can say (under the auspices of hate speech laws), and limit freedom of contract (through racial discrimination laws) and freedom of assembly (through laws overly supportive of forced union membership).
At the same time, there are also libertarians, classical liberals and anarcho-capitalists who exist on the Right such as the awesome Dr Ron Paul or the Cato Institute or economists like David Friedman. These people stand more diametrically opposed to the things you describe than most of the people on the Left. Therefore, reducing these things to Left versus Right is a bit overly simplistic.