Yes, instead of trying to defend privacy as "we don't have anything to hide, we just don't want it to be public", how about we admit that we DO have stuff to hi

Yes, instead of trying to defend privacy as "we don't have anything to hide, we just don't want it to be public", how about we admit that we DO have stuff to hide - all the time, and every single one of us. If the government wants to discover something then get an individual warrant upon probable cause, as the Constitution requires. We're not supposed to let it know everything we do or say, while it is increasingly more secretive with its own actions. It should be the other way around. But most of us have bought into the government's propaganda that "if you have something to hide, then you must be a criminal", which isn't that different from the argument that "if you oppose the war in Iraq (or elsewhere) then you're not a patriot, or you're a terrorist sympathizer". Stop buying the U.S. government's bullshit propaganda. Start with rejecting it by default, and then maybe consider whether it's right or wrong, not by accepting it by default as true. We've been burned too many times trusting the government's lies. We should've learned our lesson by now.