According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitim

According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. This is a surprisingly common sentiment in HN when it relates to financial privacy. Laws that criminalize financial privacy, aka KYC/AML laws, are justified with precisely this "nothing to hide" argument geared to money laundering and other financial crimes, and said laws are quite popular with the tech intelligentsia.