{"id":37801,"date":"2013-06-13T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/nothing-to-hide-is-foolish-selfish-naive-and-short-sighted.html"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T14:59:14","slug":"nothing-to-hide-is-foolish-selfish-naive-and-short-sighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/nothing-to-hide-is-foolish-selfish-naive-and-short-sighted.html","title":{"rendered":"“Nothing to Hide” is foolish, selfish, naive, and short-sighted"},"content":{"rendered":"
"Nothing to Hide" is foolish, selfish, naive, and short-sighted<\/b><\/p>\n

Any time there's an increase in government surveillance — increased searches (physical or electronic), new databases, all that usual jazz — you get certain folks saying, "Well, who cares? It's all to protect me from the Bad Guys, and, y'know, I've got nothing to hide."<\/i><\/p>\n

There are a lot of reasons why that's not a terribly smart response. Here are three very good ones.<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Jonathon Barton<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jason ON<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A friend told me the other day he had nothing to hide from the government and therefore wasn't worried about government surveillance. <\/p>\n

I think he's wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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3 Reasons the \u2018Nothing to Hide\u2019 Crowd Should Be Worried About Government Surveillance<\/a>
\n Most people think the federal government would have no interest in them, but many discover to their horror how wrong they are\n <\/p>\n

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"Nothing to Hide" is foolish, selfish, naive, and short-sighted Any time there's an increase in government surveillance — increased searches (physical or electronic), new databases, all that usual jazz — you get certain folks saying, "Well, who cares? It's all to protect me from the Bad Guys, and, y'know, I've got nothing to hide." There … Continue reading ““Nothing to Hide” is foolish, selfish, naive, and short-sighted”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130654,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/surveillance-for-thee-but-not-for-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":37801,"position":0},"title":"Surveillance for Thee but not for Me","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-May-16 6:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Director of the FBI basically says that encryption is primarily used by people who have something to hide, i.e., criminals and terrorists ... but cops shouldn't be filmed by civilians because it keeps them from doing their jobs.Yeesh. Encryption is \u201cessential tradecraft\u201d of terrorists, FBI director says Comey also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128350,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/the-only-time-the-government-is-willing-to-restrain-surveillance.html","url_meta":{"origin":37801,"position":1},"title":"The only time the government is willing to restrain surveillance","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 4:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... is when it discovers that it, too, is being surveilled.After nearly 50 years of (perhaps naively, perhaps with an understanding that it would be naive to be) relying on assurances from the Prime Minister's office that Members of Parliament would not be monitored by internal security (GCHQ) -- first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128231,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/your-papers-and-passwords-please.html","url_meta":{"origin":37801,"position":2},"title":""Your papers (and passwords), please"","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Oct-15 2:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've traveled internationally enough that I should probably considered what I would do in these circumstances. 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