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One way to look at the "nothing to hide" argument is that it is always told by people who wear clothes, from there the paradoxical arguments will carry on. "I
by Zenst 13y ago
One way to look at the "nothing to hide" argument is that it is always told by people who wear clothes, from there the paradoxical arguments will carry on.
"I have nothing illegal to hide" is what they really meant to say. But laws change and what was illegal today could be legal tomorrow and vice versa.
You can also view this as a variation of schrodinger cat, in that your data is inside a box and the question is are you a terroist with the answear being you are both a terroist and not a terroist until that box is opened. With that the NSA or whoever will not know if you are or not until they look.
Tough issue and one that is about as easily answered as knowing the life signs of a cat in a box without opening or interacting with the box.
- Xcelerate 13y ago> You can also view this as a variation of schrodinger cat Meh... that's really stretching for an analogy.
- miguelrochefort 13y agoI would prefer not to have anything to hide. However, the society pretty much forces me to hide who I really am. Why? Social stigma. People are used to live in a society where people hide what's not socially accepted, as well as their "problems". After a while, people tend to intuitively think that these "problems" don't exist, and become much more judgemental when they witness an instance of them. This reinforce these social stigmas and people do more and more to hide everything that could be used against them. This is a problem on its own, artificially created by the society we live in. Ideally, we would become more and more open, up until a point where we don't have anything to hide. Protecting privacy for the sake of privacy is foolish. Privacy is only necessary as long as we decide to remain close-minded and blind to reality.