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Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the book "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow (2004!), which explores the surveillance state at the intersection of private coronations. Many of the ideas and topics discussed in the book, at the time sounding more like conspiracy theories, have come true.

https://www.amazon.com/Place-Hide-Robert-OHarrow-Jr/dp/07432...

Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the book "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow (2004!), which explores the surveillance state at the intersection of private coronations. Many of the ideas and topics discussed in the book, at the time sounding more like conspiracy theories, have come true. https://www.amazon.com/Place-Hide-Robert-OHarrow-Jr/dp/07432...

Another relevant read is "No Place to Hide" (!) by Glenn Greenwald, the journalist working on the Snowden file disclosures:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18213403-no-place-to-hid...

Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the book "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow (2004!), which explores the surveillance state at the intersection of private coronations. Many of the ideas and topics discussed in the book, at the time sounding more like conspiracy theories, have come true. https://www.amazon.com/Place-Hide-Robert-OHarrow-Jr/dp/07432...

It's total class war of the rich vs the rest, sorry to tell ya. Hear it from Zbigniew brezinksi, former national security advisor of the united states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy the book "No Place to Hide" by Robert O'Harrow (2004!), which explores the surveillance state at the intersection of private coronations. Many of the ideas and topics discussed in the book, at the time sounding more like conspiracy theories, have come true. https://www.amazon.com/Place-Hide-Robert-OHarrow-Jr/dp/07432...

It's total class war of the rich vs the rest, sorry to tell ya. Hear it from Zbigniew brezinksi, former national security advisor of the united states. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

I am pretty sure that good ole Zbig is more of a part of the problem than the solution ;)

Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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On the topic of having nothing to hide, the following description of how 'privacy' differs from 'secrecy' really opened my eyes to the importance of the whole privacy issue and why not having anything to hide isn't an excuse to give up your right to privacy: What you do in the bathroom is not a secret, but you still want to close the door—you still want your privacy.

Everyone knows what happens in the bathroom, but everyone also understands that you have a right to your privacy in there and they don't expect you to leave the door open (unless, of course, that's your thing).

Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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We all have stuff to hide, but shouldn't we agree that we shouldn't?

The powerful ought to be have no privacy, because with power there's the need for public oversight. Ditto for corporations, government, and so on. And conversely, the weak ought to have total privacy, because they're so vulnerable.

In reality, we have pretty much the opposite. Because wealth and power protect themselves. So it goes.

Re: Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video]

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We all have stuff to hide, but shouldn't we agree that we shouldn't?

It's impossible not to have things to hide, as a normal human being. We don't live in glass homes, and are responsible for keeping a lot of information hidden (SSN, passwords, credit card number, credit reports, etc).
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