The argument commonly used to defend mass surveillance – If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear – is designed to intimidate and mislead. What it is, is a nonsense. It has no basis in reality. It implies that hiding, privacy, secrecy is illegal, criminal or bad. And it’s none of those things. And so, when they put it in those terms … your answer is, of course, I have nothing to hide, I’m not a bad person. So it intimidates individuals into accepting something that is wrong. - Professor Hank Wolfe, University of Otago
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:33:34 +0000
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