Some say Privacy is Gone. I say Nonsense

You will often hear nonsense arguments like…

• It’s impossible – give up! (see my blog story)
• If you have nothing to hide then it doesnt matter does it?

Lets just answer these with a few Quotes

“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

Or to make it less abstract: Would you mind giving me your email password? No? Why not? I thought you have nothing to hide?

Why is it more important to you that I can’t read all your emails than Merkel, Trump and Zuckerberg?

Why do you trust Trump more than me?

And yes, this is real, computers are actually reading your unencrypted communication (email and chat). And then when there are “investigations” many humans, police, politicians, security agencies can drill down and read every single of your email just because you wrote an email with someone 10 years ago who was potentially involved in a crime now. That is exactly what a lot of the fuzz with Snowden was about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Quoted from @dreamflasher on Hackernoon

Read some more great quotes from well known privacy advocates on Privacytools.io