> Why should a person interacting within society have the option to opt out of surveillance? A non-exhaustive list of a few specific reasons: - Private, unreg

> Why should a person interacting within society have the option to opt out of surveillance? A non-exhaustive list of a few specific reasons: - Private, unregulatable actions are historically large components of social change, particularly for minority groups. - Historically, powerful groups (both governments and societies as a whole) have used surveillance to harass critics and undesirable parts of the population. - People have a natural tendency to self-select and avoid honestly engaging with controversial ideas when they know they're being watched. I tend to sum most of that up into a more general point: People have the Right to Hide because society can be cruel, vindictive, and arbitrary, and because people have the right to protect themselves from others in the same way that a deer has the right to camouflage itself from wolves. Opting out of society is not a real choice that anyone here can realistically take, so a just society must balance collective and individual rights. That means respecting individual rights of privacy and self-autonomy.