7/7/2023 0 Comments Edward snowden book![]() ![]() Or that you don’t care about the freedom to peaceably assemble because you’re a lazy, antisocial agoraphobe. Or that you don’t care about freedom of religion because you don’t believe in God. Or that you don’t care about freedom of the press because you don’t like to read. Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. You’re assuming that no one, including yourself, might object to revealing to anyone information about their religious beliefs, political affiliations and sexual activities, as casually as some choose to reveal their movie and music tastes and reading preferences. But saying that you don’t need or want privacy because you have nothing to hide is to assume that no one should have, or could have to hide anything – including their immigration status, unemployment history, financial history, and health records. You might choose to give it up out of convenience, or under the popular pretext that privacy is only required by those who have something to hide. Because a citizenry’s freedoms are interdependent, to surrender your own privacy is really to surrender everyone’s. “There is, simply, no way, to ignore privacy. ![]()
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