Does anyone have any compelling arguments for justifying your efforts at preserving privacy? Note, not why privacy matters, instead why individual privacy is something to work for. Not nothing to hide arguments either.
@Coffee @freddyym Martin Luther King is a good example. He was wiretapped despite not breaking the law. The FBI managed to dig up an affair he was having, which they then used against his movement by threatening to embarrass those who would award him with human rights awards by smearing MLK's character.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @Coffee while I 100% agree, I'm sure some will say that they aren't Martin Luther King, and that this analogy doesn't apply to them...
@Coffee @freddyym Another example: gay Canadian man was trying to enter the US. CBP denied him entry after snooping through his phone and finding a msg from another gay man looking to hook up. He did nothing illegal, but was denied entry. (if you're not a citizen, you can be denied entry for any reason). https://sputniknews.com/art_living/201702211050924325-usa-customs-canada-deny-entry/
@freddyym @Coffee for normies caught up in mass surveillance, the data collection mostly just sits, waiting until someone needs leverage against you. Most will never know the threat is there. Privacy is like guns and condoms- better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Privacy is also like virginity- once you lose it you can't have it back.