Yes, privacy matters. Have you ever seen the movie Brazil? Some reasons you ought be concerned: - that you are mistaken for someone who committed a crime and h

Yes, privacy matters. Have you ever seen the movie Brazil? Some reasons you ought be concerned: - that you are mistaken for someone who committed a crime and have to deal with the bureaucracy that ensues. See for example false positives on the no-fly list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives - that you commit a crime without even knowing it and end up paying for it at the whim of the government. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3044794/How-we-all-break-the-law-every-day.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/3044794... More generally, I’d like to point you to this piece addressing the “nothing to hide” mentality: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461 https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-i... Edit: that piece is paywalled. Here’s Glenn Greenwald on the topic: https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matter... Cory Doctorow has also written extensively about privacy.