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The article addresses that exact retort, and others in the same style. Here is what it says. > Such responses only attack the nothing to hide argument in its m
by GuB-42 3y ago
The article addresses that exact retort, and others in the same style. Here is what it says.
> Such responses only attack the nothing to hide argument in its most extreme form, which is not particularly strong.
The article is way more nuanced, it makes a point in attacking the real argument and not the strawman. Framing the debate into a privacy/security tradeoff.
And btw, my naked body ranks pretty low in the list of things I want to hide. I just don't walk around naked in public because most people wouldn't want me to, it may even be illegal. It is interesting however how a government that says you should have nothing to hide when it comes to surveillance also says that naked bodies must stay hidden.
- llbeansandrice 3y ago[flagged]
- quickthrower2 3y agoThe most private part of your body is often not covered anyway. Your fingerprint.
- dredmorbius 3y agoOr iris. And then there's the people whose minds are so open their brains are falling out ... ;-)
- b3lvedere 3y agoIn that perspective one could also mention that humans constantly keep discarding things that can possibly uniqeuely identify them: dna.