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

Re:Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think Ab... by bitxbitxbitcoin on Thursday July 22, 2021 @06:05PM (#27924941)
The commonality is “I don’t think that I have anything to hide” or more specifically, “I don’t fully understand what exactly I am hiding from or why I need to hide.”

Last I checked, most people understand privacy from other people at some level. I only say that because I still see people wearing clothes and closing the door when using the restroom.

What they don’t understand is why they need privacy from centralized points of failure/exploitation.

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Re:Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think Ab... by dane-pgp on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:44PM (#27926622)
> I still see people wearing clothes

This SMBC comic about government-mandated backdoors also uses intuitions about clothing to make its point, and it applies equally well to the issue of surveillance:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/1460904126-20160417.png

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