sukhbir

"If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? [...] If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut?"

Whenever I try to explain the importance of privacy (online and in real life) to family or friends, not surprisingly, the most common retort to this is: "I have nothing to hide". When I counter this argument and explain why privacy matters, usually by giving them instances from day-to-day life where they want their privacy respected but don't think about it that way, the message gets across quite clearly. There is this paper [0] "'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy" which dives deeper into countering this argument; it's a very interesting read.