{"id":8346,"date":"2015-05-22T05:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2015-05-22T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:35:53","slug":"arguing-that-you-dont-care-about-the-right-to-privacy-because-you-have-nothing-to-hide-is-no-different-than-saying-you-dont-care-about-free-speech-because-you-have-nothing-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8346","title":{"rendered":"Arguing That You Don\u2019t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don\u2019t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/arguing-that-you-dont-care-about-the-right-to-privacy-because-you-have-nothing-to-hide-is-no-different-than-saying-you-dont-care-about-free-speech-because-you-have-nothing-to-say.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arguing That You Don\u2019t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don\u2019t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Most Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/05\/republicans-democrats-and-independents-all-hate-nsa-spying-think-the-patriot-act-should-not-be-reauthorized-in-its-current-form.html\">Most Americans<\/a>\u00a0value privacy and\u00a0<a title=\"oppose mass surveillance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/01\/60-americans-value-privacy-anti-terror-protections.html\">oppose mass surveillance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The minority who don\u2019t \u2013 and who think spying is okay because they have \u201cnothing to hide\u201d \u2013\u00a0 are<a title=\"grossly misinformed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/05\/may-think-nothing-hide-still-breaking-laws-government-spying-discover-use.html\">grossly misinformed<\/a>\u00a0(and don\u2019t know that spying is meant to\u00a0<a title=\"crush dissent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/06\/spying-dissent.html\">crush dissent<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"consolidate power\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/06\/senior-nsa-manager-police-state-worse-stasi-east-germany.html\">consolidate power<\/a>\u00a0\u2026<a title=\"not stop terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/05\/spying-meant-crush-dissent-terrorism.html\">not stop terrorism<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Edward Snowden\u00a0<a title=\"noted\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/36ru89\/just_days_left_to_kill_mass_surveillance_under\/crglgh2\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>\u00a0today in a Q&amp;A on Reddit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some might say \u201cI don\u2019t care if they violate my privacy; I\u2019ve got nothing to hide.\u201d Help them understand that they are misunderstanding the fundamental nature of human rights. Nobody needs to justify why they \u201cneed\u201d a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can\u2019t give away the rights of others because they\u2019re not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority.<\/p>\n<p>But even if they could, help them think for a moment about what they\u2019re saying.<strong>Arguing that you don\u2019t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don\u2019t care about free speech because you have nothing to say<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguing That You Don\u2019t Care About The Right To Privacy Because You Have Nothing To Hide Is No Different Than Saying You Don\u2019t Care About Free Speech Because You Have Nothing To Say Most Americans\u00a0value privacy and\u00a0oppose mass surveillance. The minority who don\u2019t \u2013 and who think spying is okay because they have \u201cnothing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,2703,1795,5570,652,765],"class_list":["post-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-free-speech","tag-human-rights","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}