The argument for privacy measures in general that's very convincing to me personally is imagining yourself as someone important. Imagine you were running for pr

The argument for privacy measures in general that's very convincing to me personally is imagining yourself as someone important. Imagine you were running for president in opposition to current government policies: would you want the government to have all your texts and emails, your entire browser history, the contents of your harddrive? Even if you've done nothing illegal, immoral or socially unacceptable, certainly you can think of something you've privately said or searched for that could be misconstrued to make you look bad. In a democratic world, information is power. The more you know about someone, the more there is you can use against them; the more ways there are for you to lie.