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A comment on Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance (2013).

Re:Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think Ab... by glonq on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:08PM (#27923665)
When I was younger, I held the "nothing to hide" PoV. But now I think about it more critically, like "how could [...will!] these surveillance powers be misused/abused?"
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Re:Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think Ab... by murgindrag on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:12PM (#27925875)
That's sort of what I realized the first time I got into a power struggle, and learned all the ways people can try to frame you for things, slander you about things, and otherwise set you up.

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge asymmetry places you at a disadvantage, always.

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