{"id":1637,"date":"2015-07-30T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:16:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:16:18","slug":"i-have-nothing-to-hide-really-means-you-cant-confide-anything-in-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/i-have-nothing-to-hide-really-means-you-cant-confide-anything-in-me\/","title":{"rendered":"“I Have Nothing To Hide” Really Means “You Can’t Confide Anything In Me”"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who don\u2019t care for their privacy are missing a vital piece of the puzzle: everybody is safeguarding their own privacy and key pieces of others\u2019 privacy. By belittling the need for their own privacy and right to keep secrets, they are also saying that nobody else should ever trust a secret to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Privacy is frequently mistaken for an individual privilege, when it is a collective necessity.<\/p>\n

Without privacy, laws can\u2019t be broken. And if laws \u2013 formal and informal \u2013 can\u2019t be broken, they are rarely questioned. When rules aren\u2019t questioned, a society stops dead in its tracks.<\/p>\n

Not long ago, people who were born homosexual were criminal from birth. Long after that had been abolished, homosexuality was considered a mental illness. (In Sweden, that classifying-as-an-illness came to an end as thousands and thousands of people called in sick one morning, stating they \u201cfelt a little gay today\u201d.)<\/p>\n

If today\u2019s mass surveillance laws had been in place in the 1950s, there would never have been a civil rights movement. There would never have been a human rights movement to establish sexual equality. People who are born homosexual would still be criminal from birth, merely for being born a certain way. And that\u2019s just one of many areas where values have progressed \u2013 and progressed for the better.<\/p>\n

This demonstrates the collective harm caused by mass surveillance, and frankly, by law enforcement that is too effective.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s another collective aspect of privacy that has gone undiscussed \u2013 and that\u2019s the fact that people aren\u2019t just keeping secrets of their own; they\u2019re also keeping the secrets others have confided in them, for personal, business, or even spiritual reasons where applicable.<\/p>\n

After all, if you don\u2019t mind the government reading your mail and your texts with the usual careless shrug of \u201cI have nothing to hide\u201d, that means you don\u2019t mind them reading the conversations you<\/em> are having with other people<\/em>. And that correspondence was not just a secret of yours;<\/em> it was also the secret of the respective people you were corresponding with.<\/em> If somebody confides in you that they were assaulted, for example, an \u201cI have nothing to hide\u201d means that you\u2019re going to give up not just the secrets of your own, but the secrets confided to you as well<\/em>, including that somebody close to you was assaulted.<\/p>\n

It boils down to the observation that the statement \u201cI have nothing to hide\u201d translates to \u201cyou can\u2019t confide anything in me for any reason\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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