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"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

—Edward Snowden

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[–] Saki@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, though not necessarily you’ll need to protect (hide) everything, a person is obviously the owner of their personal info: they’re free to decide what info they share or not, with whom…

Basically you have no reason to “hide“ when or how many times you go to a bathroom; nevertheless you don’t need to publicly share such info, unless you do want to. Going to a bathroom is not illegal; not sharing such info is, not because you want to hide bad things, but simply because the info is irrelevant and you don’t need to share it. “You don’t need to hide anything if you’re not doing anything bad” is such a warped logic, a crazy rhetoric. Not sharing private info, and hiding bad things, are two different things!