"I have nothing to hide, so I had nothing to fear . "
If you talk about privacy in your circle of friends, how many of them will respond more or less exactly that?
this sentence is, unfortunately, quite common. It is also one of the most dangerously ignorant attitudes towards privacy today It assumes that your particular habits. - normal daily habits that hurt nobody. - will not be outlawed by the next parliament unreasonably It assumes that you are 100% respectful of the law, even by the smallest stupid laws, you are not (person). It assumes that you do nothing at all that could be interpreted as another by an opponent looking for patterns that differ from anything ordinary something.
There are many things we do every day that could cause problems for us if the wrong person used against us. this is the case for everyone. That's why we have this notion of privacy. It is a guarantee that small offenses that we do every day - jaywalking, speeding up a bit to keep up with the flow of traffic, just do the work of the company with its all written and unwritten rules, that all these small offenses are regularly ignored. (Written communications and unwritten rule sets tend to contradict the degree.)
Most things that could cause problems for us in the wrong hands are not even illegal, just as taboo a form of another. Imagine a British politician with any form of sexuality, for example, who came to the attention of the public by any mechanism. Natural that for every person - no, all creature of all species in the world, it would still kill the career of this politician, because of unwritten rules
There a reason why the NSA. collect tons of communications for the explicit purpose of finding something to discrediting undesirable and troublesome individuals.
Have you ever do anything that was the least troublesome for everyone in power? No? Someone richer than you, someone influential? Of course you did. Everyone does. To ensure that this continues to happen, our checks and balances set a clear framework that is supposed to make people equal before the law. mass surveillance kill this principle and could put ahead on the right.
The conflict between the written and unwritten laws, moreover, are not only usable by people in power. There is a beautiful form of labor dispute in South America called strike to the rule , where workers insist on following every single rule written. Each time, he grinds the production stopped. When bus drivers in a city - maybe Buenos Aires - go on strike, they decided to follow every single traffic rules. The whole town got bottled in a heartbeat.
We must be aware that there is a clear and present conflict between the written laws and unwritten rules that make society tick, and that we are normally expected to let the latter take precedence over the former . But with the mass surveillance eroding privacy, you can be held responsible for the violation or ruleset - you should necessarily do as they conflict
This is how selective enforcement between involved .. as in the application of selective laws. When you have so much data on everyone, and I know that everyone breaks the law or the rules on a daily if not hourly, and that moves dramatically priorities.
At this time, law enforcement moves its operations from punishing troublesome actions to punish troublesome people .
This is why privacy is important.
Freedom of expression is not only the freedom to state an opinion or observation that you like. It is the ability to state an opinion or observation without fear of reprisal for the . Here, a much higher freedom, and is essential to keep power in check.
If you have the case of privacy like this to your friends, chances are they'll respond with something completely different from the "I have nothing to hide" cliché. If they do not always receive the picture, ask them if they close the door behind them when they go to the bathroom, and the following conversation may take place:
- Of course, I lock the door when I go to the bathroom. ? Does not everyone
- So what do you have to hide it? What laws you break
- What? No! I just want some privacy, I think I have the right to that!
Next, look at the penny dropped, in most cases.
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