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Martin Boller 
Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"
In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"
Kat the Leopardess
Rasmus Vuori@Catwoman69y2k @itisiboller Reminds me that when we talk about privacy, we should use the same rhetoric as when we talk about intimacy and consent. Our data is intimate, and it's ok to share it, but it *always* requires consent. The lack of consent is just one step away from abuse.
Dave 
🇺🇸🇺🇦@rasmus @Catwoman69y2k @itisiboller Consent in advertising today:
"Is it ok if I sit here?"
"Yes."
"OK."
**Takes over entire couch**
@heydaave @rasmus @itisiboller A famous animated crab once said... "give em an inch and theyll swim all over you." :)
Jeffrey Goldberg@Catwoman69y2k @rasmus @heydaave @itisiboller
Or
“Give ‘em an inch and they think they’re a ruler.” —Maxwell Smart.
AlexLapins@alexlapins @rasmus @itisiboller Yeah. Informed consent. I know that, by design, these corps and entities hope to keep you in the dark on what data you are giving away. They want FOMO and other surface-level social aspects to supercede any questioning
MrsG_Cyber 
@itisiboller Wow, she has a true talent for expressing her thoughts! May I ask how old she is? And who in her life made the original comment?
@mrsg_cyber I think they stole/borrowed/reused that one. However have a look at:
https://nikolinekaiser.dk/ for their own work.
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@itisiboller Very cool, thanks for sharing.
mkolsek@itisiboller @mrsg_cyber This is wonderful, thanks!
Inger Jakobsen@itisiboller I am going to steal that. Thank you for sharing!
Nika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️@itisiboller better yet; i need it because its a human right. We also do not expect people to use the toilette with doors wide open (would be too creepy)
@itisiboller oh wait not in the US.. there your doors are a joke
4bz@Nika2022 @itisiboller like our privacy 😅
Oli
SkippyNL@itisiboller so true you are raising her well.
axel.@itisiboller @reneestephen this is finally a perfect reply. I always stutter when I encounter the „I have nothing to hide“ attitude; this is a perfect retort.
Dan McDonaldSo impressed by GenZ! This sounds like something my own kids would've said or heard/seen.
Christian Grobmeier@itisiboller Best response I ever heard
Ilona Kemppainen@itisiboller My childhood
Alex Chaffee“Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
Terry Pratchett, Snuff (a Discworld novel)
SpontaneBegleitvegetation
Sammy
bdk@alexch @itisiboller @ShaulaEvans One of my favorite quotes from Terry Pratchett, other than Vimes' boots theory of economics.
This reminds me also of this gem from discworld novel The Truth (2000):
"He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'."
Fluffy Kitty Cat@bdk @alexch @itisiboller @ShaulaEvans for a lot of us, "hand someone" means "they're gonna hang me"
f1ip@alexch @itisiboller @ShaulaEvans it is truly remarkable how many amazing quotes DiscWorld has.
I am re-reading them all and I swear I have never made so many highlights in one book other that LotR.
Bart Veldhuizen 🚀@f1ip i just started te-reading them too. Good times!
Michael Gemar@alexch @HollyGoDarkly @itisiboller @ShaulaEvans Pratchett was such an insightful and humane writer.
Karen Bruner@itisiboller Smart. And it's proactively protecting against shifts in the Overton window.
Michael Porter@itisiboller So good. I’m keeping that in my pocket for a couple of people I know that “have nothing to hide.”
ShaneLee@itisiboller Good Luck - she isn’t just any girl is she
Zee@itisiboller apparently that mantra doesn’t apply to politicians
Tim BrayWe deserve privacy, not just inservice to other goals, because it's a benefit of being a member of a civilization: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/privacy-primer-c7b9caadfc67
Pupito@itisiboller If you have something to hide not necessarily mean you did something wrong
MisterStars@itisiboller love it. My response to “if you aren’t doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about…” has always been “but what if I’m doing something wrong?”
i.grok@MisterStars72 @itisiboller that's not very helpful to the cause, since they already equate an insistence on privacy with intent to hide wrongdoing...
@igrok @itisiboller And since some folks will falsely define certain behavior behind closed doors as “wrongdoing” - I’ll always support strengthening the 4th amendment. The very concept of privacy is you are doing things you wish to hide from others, for whatever reason.
Anders Borch@itisiboller “It’s not that I have something to hide, it’s that I have nothing I want you to see.”
CleoMatra@itisiboller Love it 👏
John Shirley@itisiboller your daughter has nailed it, she's quite right Martin.
Theocracidal@itisiboller you've done a fine job there
DogeMocenigo@itisiboller wonderful. Did she come up with that answer - or please ask her where she found it.
@dogemocenigo I think she read it somewhere she reads (and writes) a LOT, will ask.
@itisiboller She reads and writes a lot. You are lucky, and most likely she is lucky to have you as a father.
njc
gergo@itisiboller this needs to go on a sticker or smth, what a great summary.
BRoos@itisiboller goed advies!
madcap 
@itisiboller brilliant!
OneRedSock@itisiboller Smart daughter. (But you don't need telling that!)
Gareth KitchenThis is why both my kids had ProtonVPN on their phones since they were old enough to have one.
The Spoonless Kitchen@itisiboller ...unless you are a domestic violence survivor. Then, depending on circumstances, and further escalations that may be involved in trying to escape - especially if the family of the perpetrator has power, reach, and influence, and tries to maintain legal, psychological, financial, and physical control over their family member's victim(s) over decades - then...yes, yes, we do have everything to hide, and everything to fear.
And we are criminalized, suspected, and discriminated against, for acting like we do.
It shouldn't be like that.....
Alessio 
@itisiboller @sancas sometimes I feel like newer generations gonna beat our asses about privacy and this kind of stuff
@itisiboller That is so on point. Absolutely nothing to add here!
Henrik Kramselund - kramse@itisiboller
that is a very nice comeback, to an otherwise annoying discussion
puts it right back in the hands of the other person, and hopefully they will consider it some more.
rollspelosofen@itisiboller Thank you. I'm bookmarking this.
Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️@itisiboller How extraordinary!!!🎉
www-gem@itisiboller This sentence is commonly found on the net but it's really nice to see that some people of the next generation are sensitive to that and understand these concerns well enough to use this phrasing. Similarly to some other problems, people will realize too late where not enough caution led us. It's in human nature and linked to cognitive processes to be aware of the impacts of a situation only when you are facing them yourself as an individual.
Rick Rae@itisiboller
This, so much this!
This, so much this!
PrivacyMaverick@itisiboller I love it, succinct encapsulation of Dan Solove’s seminal work on the subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_Hide_(book)
