Re:Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
by piyh on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:40AM
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Or the more direct, "Do you shit with the door open?"
Re:Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
by electrondood on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:26AM
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This is the most succinct expression I've ever seen of the only counterargument you need.
Re:Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
by dionidium on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:46AM
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We don't have curtains, actually. We have some pull-down blinds that are almost always in the up position. And I have to be honest: I only care about walking in front of my windows naked to the extent that it would bother my neighbors. I couldn't care any less. I only ever pull them down to spare my neighbors any embarrassment.
Which is just to say: a lot of privacy talk is mere question-begging. It's assumed we all feel the same privacy-based emotions (and pro-privacy arguments like yours attempt to appeal to those emotions), but I find that I rarely share my interlocutor's intuitions on this topic, so your argument is still ahead of you.
It's better to show that they already take steps to be private rather than asking privacy-invasive questions. One of those makes you the bad guy, the other shows that they actually do value privacy.