these things were so commonly used to outline poor thinking skills and apparently these supposedly learned men argue this. this is just the worst timeline. I remember at one point early in the millenium I was like wow. India is really getting somewhere. Unfortunately everyone seems to be going down. from the article:

“The question is can it [illegal surveillance] be done? The question here is not whether a person is ‘bothered’ or whether he has something to hide,” Mr. Mehta submitted.

The State had sought an extension of the police custody of former Telangana Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief T. Prabhakar Rao, who is an accused in the snooping phone-tapping case during the previous BRS government in the State.

“Now we live in an open world. Nobody is in a closed world. Nobody should be really bothered about surveillance. Why should anyone be bothered about surveillance unless they have something to hide?” Justice Nagarathna questioned.