Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
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Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#2Something people never seem to understand is data leaks and/or mishandling of your info. Even if you have "nothing to hide", companies that hold your data, and subsequently sell it/abuse it/get it leaked somehow, can be a powerful tool used to take advantage of people, and manipulated leaked data is frequently blindly trusted, which could easily be used to frame someone for a crime for example.
The only way to keep your privacy is to not let those companies have your data in the first place, so in that sense everyone should care about privacy even if they don't inherently do anything wrong in the moment.
Another related quote I like to share is "if you have nothing to hide, then pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone."
Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#3When people say, “I have nothing to hide.” I remind them that they have a door on their bathroom and curtains over their windows for perfectly innocent yet no less valid reasons.
Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#4When people say, “I have nothing to hide.” I remind them that they have a door on their bathroom and curtains over their windows for perfectly innocent yet no less valid reasons.
I have curtains not because I feel compelled to hide, but because outsiders don't want to see what happens in my home.
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Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#6The title summarizes it perfectly well.
And all people have things to hide -especially those who say they have nothing to hide.
Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#7When people say, “I have nothing to hide.” I remind them that they have a door on their bathroom and curtains over their windows for perfectly innocent yet no less valid reasons.
Also, I ask them what they earn.
Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#8Another argument I hear often is that "they have no reason to surveil boring ordinary individuals." Sure nobody might have bothered to look into your private exchanges past aggregable metadata until half a decade or so ago, but with recent advancements in LLMs it takes mere moments to summarize or search through large batches of messages.
Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#9> If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.
I've always taken issues with this phrase as many people would be lead to believe the opposite as well: If you have something to hide, you have something to fear.
Which further suggests that as soon as there's anything you want to hide, that has to be something criminal.
Of course, this is utter garbage. People _do_ have things to hide, and it is rarely criminal / unlawful.
Re: Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
#10When people say, “I have nothing to hide.” I remind them that they have a door on their bathroom and curtains over their windows for perfectly innocent yet no less valid reasons.
I have curtains not because I feel compelled to hide, but because outsiders don't want to see what happens in my home.
the last numbers i looked at suggest 1 in 1000, would have a keenly pRurient interest.