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“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

Edward Snowden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. “Then don’t lock your door!” “Picture: a crazy obsessive ex…”

      “Public (willing to share; open) <- -> Private (personal; protected; secret)” and “Showing good things you do <- -> Hiding bad things you do” are different vectors, apples and oranges. Clearly, there are 1) publicly done good things, 2) publicly done bad things, 3) privately done good things, and 4) privately done bad things — showing these two dimensions are independent. Or open-source good tools, and open-source malware (e.g. with backdoor) too.

      The argument that one should be able to reveal everything if not doing anything wrong, or that if it’s not hidden it’s good and if it’s hidden it must be something bad, is unrealistic, illogical, misleading, confusing, and simply silly.

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    1 year ago

    Can we talk in private?

    You mean we’re not friends?

    You share my mail address?

    You only use global variables?!

    I can’t trust you then.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, though not necessarily you’ll need to protect (hide) everything, a person is obviously the owner of their personal info: they’re free to decide what info they share or not, with whom…

      Basically you have no reason to “hide“ when or how many times you go to a bathroom; nevertheless you don’t need to publicly share such info, unless you do want to. Going to a bathroom is not illegal; not sharing such info is, not because you want to hide bad things, but simply because the info is irrelevant and you don’t need to share it. “You don’t need to hide anything if you’re not doing anything bad” is such a warped logic, a crazy rhetoric. Not sharing private info, and hiding bad things, are two different things!

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    1 year ago

    Free speech includes free non-speech.

    Having some privacy isn’t “hiding.”