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‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

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Re: ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

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That's like people who say, "I don't have anything to hide, I've done nothing wrong." to which I reply, "Ok. Take your clothes off right now. Remove the curtains from your bedroom window and the door off of your bathroom." The look on their face is that of incredulity. People have an expectation of privacy and need the ability to hide perfectly benign things in their lives. Most importantly, they should have the free…

I have a lot of things to hide from criminals and little to hide from the police. I fear your metaphor is a fallacy... If people dont want to be naked in public it s because they expect onlookers to abuse of their image to exploit it, there s an argument to say that the police isn't at risk of doing so. I'm not saying you re wrong in principle, just that your easy fallacy is just that.

It's reasonable to expect the police not to abuse nude photos of you. But they've done so time and again:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/cops-st...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/lauren-mccluskey-utah-...

Re: ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

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That's like people who say, "I don't have anything to hide, I've done nothing wrong." to which I reply, "Ok. Take your clothes off right now. Remove the curtains from your bedroom window and the door off of your bathroom." The look on their face is that of incredulity. People have an expectation of privacy and need the ability to hide perfectly benign things in their lives. Most importantly, they should have the free…

I have a lot of things to hide from criminals and little to hide from the police. I fear your metaphor is a fallacy... If people dont want to be naked in public it s because they expect onlookers to abuse of their image to exploit it, there s an argument to say that the police isn't at risk of doing so. I'm not saying you re wrong in principle, just that your easy fallacy is just that.

I don't want want anyone to know what I had for dinner last night. It doesn't mean it was something illegal or even out of the ordinary. It is just not anybody's business to know that.

Re: ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

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That's like people who say, "I don't have anything to hide, I've done nothing wrong." to which I reply, "Ok. Take your clothes off right now. Remove the curtains from your bedroom window and the door off of your bathroom." The look on their face is that of incredulity. People have an expectation of privacy and need the ability to hide perfectly benign things in their lives. Most importantly, they should have the free…

I'm cold. I'd wake up with sunlight. It's unsightly.

Let your phone number and your address here then.

Re: ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

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I'm cold. I'd wake up with sunlight. It's unsightly.

Let your phone number and your address here then.

I wouldn't do that to avoid prank calls or harassing, not due to privacy.

Re: ‘If You’re Not a Criminal, Don’t Be Afraid’– NSO CEO says

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Let your phone number and your address here then.

I wouldn't do that to avoid prank calls or harassing, not due to privacy.

> "I wouldn't do that [give up my privacy] to avoid prank calls or harassing, not due to privacy."

Do you see how contradictory that is? It is precisely due to privacy. You value your privacy, in order to avoid those things.

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