Actually, I have an awful lot to hide.
Not because I am a criminal or a tax-evading billionaire, but because I'm a human being.
I am more than just a data mine. I refuse to be reduced to a source of digital commodities. I refuse to be valued at anyone's ad-revenue.
I have a right to decide what others should know about me. And I have a right to know what they will do with what they know.
That's why I have a lot to hide. Not because I must, but because I want to.
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#privacy #DataProtection
@r_alb "i aM nOt a CrImInAl, i hAvE noThIng tO hIdE"
k, next time send me a pic of you while you are taking a trump.
Hear, hear! 🍻
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I mean it is common knowledge that in the US personal informations are bought and sold via data brokers to every one.
So while all your reasons are perfectly valid and should apply to everybody... we should also keep as much as possible secret to keep its resale value! If everybody knows where you shop or where you live, this information is worth nothing. Because everybody knows. But something nobody knows? Well, THAT'S worth some dollars!
...maybe that is a valid argument for those "I have nothing to hide" people.
@r_alb example:
When posting on social media, I post things that have happened e.g. "I went to Thorpe Park".
If I posted "I am at Thorpe Park" that might mean that someone could try to meet me there and spoil my day or go to my house to rob it as they knew I wasn't in.
So yes, an average person would have plenty of bits of information that should not be shared freely with untrusted parties. These are just simple examples and there are hundreds more.
@vfrmedia @Workshopshed @r_alb also the idea of something else, human or otherwise; intercepting and disseminating my communication also feels creepy and *should* for everyone, it should never be normalised.
In the 50s the idea of the post office opening everyones letters so some agency could read them before they get delivered would have everyone angry in protest.
Today, it's government policy and if you oppose it you get the suggestive, snide reply: "oh, you must have something to hide!"
@r_alb
Should it be called "hide"?
Why is the world so actively watching me? What, am I the center of the universe? No. I am not. Just leave me alone, just as the universe does!
I am a little soul carrying around a corpse
(Thanks Epictetus)
@r_alb @jstatepost Privacy is the right to decide what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself.
(And for anyone who thinks “yeah, duh!”, I had to utter that exact sentence at a round-table meeting with “invited privacy experts” and the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy because they were bikeshedding the definition.)
@aral @r_alb @jstatepost How _did_ we get to this point where so many people think it means 'secrecy'???
As in "if you have nothing to hide...". Which has nothing to do whatsoever with privacy.
@aral
> Privacy is the right to decide what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself.
Importantly: “[…] what you want to share, *and with whom* […]”
I don't know the exact “invited privacy experts” in this case, but too many of them assume sharing is all-or-nothing and once-for-all.
No! Just because I consent to share information with my doctor, does not imply I consent to sharing that with their cloud provider, nor with my government, nor with my family.
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