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Good answers to Arguments against privacy
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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Has anybody ever really said that "I have nothing to hide" in the wild? I only ever read that in online discussions about how to counter that argument. Proponents of surveillance I met were either "companies need to have all the data, else they don't survive the harsh competition" when it comes to surveillance capitalism or the say "All the crimes, protect the children" when it comes to state surveillance. They seem to be aware that they lose privacy, but they believe that it is OK for what they get.
…until it happens to them. Lacking empathy is the root of the problem.
Tech literates people tend to be more aware, but people who don't even know what OS means/is...
I'm the only person in my family that has some IT knowledge and believe it or not, everyone in my family things that way... While swipping, scrolling, posting on GAFAMs and publicly exposing all their life ^^. In my friends circle it's the same... Those who don't know what an OS is respond the same way.
So it's mostly the lack of knowledge of what privacy is, in the digital world... Because in real life most people put curtains behind their windows, so people won't snoop on your hidden secrets.
Yes, unfortunately. I heard it as an answer, to me trying to move people to Signal...