Why you should care about privacy even if you have nothing to hide?

Privacy underpins a healthy democracy, and ensures our freedoms of expression, association, and assembly. The erosion of privacy is something that affects all people, even those who have nothing to hide.

Why do you need privacy?

Privacy is important because: Privacy gives us the power to choose our thoughts and feelings and who we share them with. Privacy protects our information we do not want shared publicly (such as health or personal finances). Privacy helps protect our physical safety (if our real time location data is private).

Is privacy a negative right or a positive right?

Negative rights, such as the right to privacy, the right not to be killed, or the right to do what one wants with one’s property, are rights that protect some form of human freedom or liberty, . Positive rights impose a positive duty on us—the duty actively to help a person to have or to do something.

Why does privacy matter to everyone?

Greenwald opens up with a perfect example of why privacy matters to everyone: There’s nothing wrong with singing and dancing, yet you do it in private because you don’t want to do it in front of others. You may have nothing incriminating to hide, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be allowed to hide when you want to sing and dance.

Is too much privacy on a phone a bad thing?

In this situation, and many others, too much privacy is a BAD THING. In the event that something happens to you that’s unexpected or you succumb to foul prey or something, had those features in the phone and/or software been enabled, help would potentially rapidly come to your aid OR the authorities would know more clues to where the hell you are.

Are You at risk of privacy violation?

The risk to your privacy is clearly delineated: the only checks on your privacy come through that opening. Anything else is a violation. Think of the sky like an “out” for greater scrutiny during times of national crisis, or a clearly-worded Privacy Policy. You should know when you’re being watched, and there should be a damn good reason.

Do you care more about your personal safety than your privacy?

If you don’t care about your personal safety over your privacy concerns, then just keep going about your business and hope you’re not one of the many that go missing daily. So if your privacy is worth more than being one of those daily statistics then go ahead and roll the dice but me and mine are going to be tracked moving forward.