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404response
7y

'I have nothing to hide'

in the last 20 hours i have heard this lie three times from three different people.
I just don't understand them. Everytime the topic privacy comes up (a lot of the times it isn't even me who starts talking about it) they I say this.

Would you want someone following you at all times, looking through your window, recording everything you say and writing all the information he gets about you into a notebook, potentially selling this information to others?
I really hope that you don't want this.

Privacy is a human right and it should stay that!

Privacy is a part of freedom and while freedom may be pretty difficult to define, privacy should always be a part of it.

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  • 5
    7y
    You talk about privacy a lot... The topic barely comes up around me. Is this normal?
  • 2
    7y
    @jamescodesthing well yesterday I was at someone who got a Google home and his dad started talking about how it stores all your data

    Today someone else mentioned it while talking about icloud
  • 3
    7y
    Who was the third?

    If this is an abnormal situation then what's your usual average?
  • 2
    7y
    @jamescodesthing the third one was someone else mentioning how cool Google home was. I told him why I wouldn't want it in my home because of the privacy thing.

    I guess that's on my card but usually I hear it once/twice a week
  • 3
    7y
    @404response what do you do?

    I'm a software dev, I think it's come up once or twice this year and most of that was my little brother letting my mom know Alexa is always listening.

    I have them Philips lights hooked up on a box... It's awesome.
  • 5
    7y
    "Saying that you don't care about your right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying that you don't care about your right to free speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden

    The more we normalize privacy, the more people who need to hide for their own safety are able to do so. Refugees. Members of the Witness Protection Program. Whistleblowers. Victims of stalking. All of these people need their privacy protected, and unwillingness to protect that right makes life that much harder for them.
  • 0
    7y
    @jamescodesthing what exactly do you mean by 'what do you do'? 😅
  • 1
    7y
    @404response oh my bad dude, I mean like work/education?

    I'd expect a huuuuge increase in the amount of people talking about privacy in related fields 😂
  • 1
    7y
    @jamescodesthing I am in highschool, two years left till college.

    I am kinda known as the 'privacy guy' by some people. I will probably hold a presentation about privacy / data security later this school year.
  • 2
    7y
    Read the first line of the rant, get angry
  • 4
    7y
    An appropriate response is "Then unlock your phone and give it to me to search whatever my heart desires ". Cause that's the least amount of information your cell phone as a whole gives about you. According to their words, they shouldn't mind cause they have nothing to hide.
  • 1
    7y
    Ask them to leave door open, when they are going to take a dump
    and to show baby photos to their colleagues
    or ask them, if they would show their parents videos of themselves while "naked cuddle time" or fapping.
    Sudenly they surely find excuses but watching them blush is fun.
  • 1
    7y
    It's stupid imo. I don't give a crap if you don't care what your little pet robot records, but wouldn't you rather not let Alexa record your whole fucking life?!?
  • 2
    7y
    Damn I surely 'infected' you! :P
  • 1
    7y
    @linuxxx infected is such a negative word, I would rather say 'you have changed my view on things for the better' :)
  • 2
    7y
    @404response 👌
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