Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data.
But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they "have nothing to hide", and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else.
So, why should people worry about data privacy even if they have "nothing to hide"?
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I have done nothing illegal and nothing wrong, yet I have everything to hide.
I don't trust what judgements our governments 10 years from now wants to put on me, my family and my children based on my current loud political acceptance of trans rights, free abortion, and my express hatred of fascism.
This literally happened with abortion rights. People put their health data unencrypted in apps, because they „had nothing to hide“. Then the law changed.
I'm interested, would it be different if 10 years ago you were anti-LGBT, anti-abortion and fascist, but changed your mind? Would you consider others judging you for that now acceptable?
It's a random thought, no deeper meaning or provocation.
Oh, people could, and my friends would.
People randomly judging me is a different worry than having an oppressive government or malign actors with documentation on my "problems".
Depends on the subset of rules you evaluate.
People randomly judging you can get quite similar to a whole government, or a whole government may be no more of a nuisance that people randomly judging you.
But I suppose this is too far off the topic.