Life is not a luxury or privilege. It is a right. You should never justify why you need privacy; you have a right to privacy, without any justification. The few exceptions are what need to be justified.
We are witnessing an attack more and more on our right to privacy. Snowden's revelations have given us a glimpse of the depth of the rabbit hole goes: it is not enough that our privacy is abolished in law; it is also that the various government agencies ignore the few protections in the law anyway, and all the wiretap big world all the time.
The worst is that some ordinary people actually try to justify this infringement. You probably have friends who reject the fact that they can not have a private conversation as "unimportant" or worse, "I am willing to give it to feel safe" Like. - A - they got safer without privacy, and - two - they had the right to make that decision for everyone, just because of how they feel
There is also the ubiquitous cliché "? If you have nothing to fear, why do you need privacy"
A sarcastic but always relevant, accurate response would be ;.
"? If you do use it for such a drivel, why do you need the freedom of expression"
This response illustrates the nature of both privacy and freedom of expression: They are not contingent on what you use them for, or more importantly, the work of someone else (read the "law enforcement") would be easier and more handy if you do not have them.
(for a more complete response to this dangerous cliché, see Demystifying nothing to hide).
It is absolutely essential that all challenges to privacy is thrown stressing that privacy is not need to be justified; it is a fundamental human right, as described in the US bill of rights in the European Convention on Human Rights and the Declaration of the United Nations for Human Rights, among others. However, invasions of privacy must be justified in any case -. Well justified not only "because law enforcement wants"
Each political battle is won or lost in the language. It is time we remind our friends that may come to be aware of this importance, how fundamental privacy is -. And that you should never justify keeping things to yourself
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