'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy

Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by contrarian1234 on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:03AM (#37118573)

For context, I'm generally sympathetic to the "I've got nothing to hide" people

I find your example illustrates the point . The UK has insane libel laws

The sane solution would be to address these laws, not to create mechanisms for people to arbitrarily evade laws

A lot of pro privacy arguments seem to boil down to "well we should make it a bit easier for people to break the law, cus maybe the laws are just bad". This line of reasoning just feels really unsatisfying..

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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by jabradoodle on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:24AM (#37118690)

It doesn't sound like libel/defemtation were involved in either case. Sounds like they were treated as criminal matters.

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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by simonh on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:18AM (#37118653)

I think we need both. We need clearer and more just laws governing free speech, and we need the right to the protection of our private speech.

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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by psd1 on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:50AM (#37119957)

> we need

You're not wrong, but there are more pressing concerns

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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by simonh on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:05AM (#37120072)

The UK passes roughly 33 acts of parliament per year, and 3,000 Statutory Instruments. What other concern is so pressing that passing one act of parliament would render the nation unable to complete it?

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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by rightbyte on Monday August 14, 2023 @05:10AM (#37118961)

> The UK has insane libel laws

It is somewhat strange since the tabloids are extremely toxic and spam gossip.

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Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of... by qerti on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:53AM (#37121733)

“Making it easier for people to break the law” is a weird way of saying “Making it harder for authoritarian governments to abuse its citizens”

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