{"id":1315,"date":"2014-11-29T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T22:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:16:57","slug":"you-never-need-to-justify-your-right-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/you-never-need-to-justify-your-right-to-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"You Never Need To Justify Your Right To Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Privacy is not a luxury or a privilege. It is a right. You never need to justify why you need privacy; you have a right to privacy without any justification whatsoever. The rare exceptions are what need to be well justified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are seeing an increasing assault on our right to privacy. Snowden\u2019s revelations gave us a glimpse of how deep the rabbit hole goes: it\u2019s not just that our privacy is being abolished in law; it\u2019s also that various government agencies are ignoring the few protections in law anyway and wiretapping everybody wholesale all the time.<\/p>\n

The worst part of this is that some everyday people actually try to justify this invasion of rights. You probably have friends that dismiss the fact that they no longer can hold a private conversation as \u201cunimportant\u201d, or worse, \u201cI\u2019m prepared to give up that to feel safe\u201d. As if \u2013 one \u2013 they got any safer without privacy, and \u2013 two \u2013 they had a right to make that decision for everybody else, just because of how they feel themselves?<\/p>\n

There is also the everpresent clich\u00e9 of \u201cIf you have nothing to fear, why do you need privacy?\u201d.<\/p>\n

A sarcastic but still pertinent and accurate response to that would be;<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re only using it for such drivel, why do you need Freedom of Speech?\u201d<\/p>\n

That response illustrates the nature of both privacy and of Freedom of Speech: They are not conditional of what you use them for, or more importantly, whether somebody else\u2019s job (read \u201claw enforcement\u201d) would be easier and more convenient if you didn\u2019t have them.<\/p>\n

(For a more thorough response to that dangerous clich\u00e9, see debunking nothing to hide<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It is absolutely paramount that every challenge to privacy is discarded by pointing out that privacy does not need<\/em> to be justified; it is a human fundamental right, as described in the U.S. Bill of Rights, in the European Convention on Human Rights, and the United Nations\u2019 Declaration of Human Rights, among others. However, invasions to privacy need to be justified in every single case \u2013 and well justified, not just \u201cbecause law enforcement wants to\u201d.<\/p>\n

Every political battle is won or lost in the language. It\u2019s more than time we remind our friends, who may have just been unaware of this importance, just how fundamental privacy is \u2013 and that you never need to justify keeping things to yourself.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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