“I Have Nothing to Hide” – The Dangerous Myth About Privacy

“I have nothing to hide”.
It’s become a default response from many to overreaching surveillance.
When did privacy start being about having something to hide? It used to simply be about having the right to decide for ourselves who gets access to our data. But over the past decade we’ve lost that choice, and so much of our personal and sensitive information is shared without our knowledge or explicit consent.

In this video I want to give you a list of arguments you can use in response to anyone who dismisses the importance of privacy because they “have nothing to hide”.

00:00 “I Have Nothing To Hide”
01:33 Privacy is About Consent
02:35 Nothing to Hide, Everything to Protect
04:34 Privacy is NOT Dead
05:18 Your Data Is Forever
06:03 It’s Not About You
08:14 Uncertain Future
10:10 Surveillance Stifles Creativity and Dissent
11:30 Surveillance Isn’t About Criminals
12:29 Your Data Puts Others at Risk
14:25 You Send A Signal With Your Choices
16:21 A Fight We Can’t Afford to Lose

Surveillance is a weapon that is too often used to silence opposition, suppress individuality, and enforce conformity. Privacy is what allows us to think, act, and connect without fear. Without privacy, we lose the ability to dissent, to innovate, and to live freely. The next time someone says, “I have nothing to hide,” remind them of this: Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about protecting your rights, your choices, and your future.

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Recommended Books:

Beginner's Introduction To Privacy - Naomi Brockwell
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Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
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What has the government done to our money - Rothbard
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Extreme Privacy - Michael Bazzel (The best privacy book I've ever read)
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald
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Brave browser: https://brave.com/nao076

Faraday bag (signal stopping, to protect your fob, credit card, computer, and phone)
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USB-C to ethernet adapter:
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Privacy Screens (use your phone and computer in public? Keep your information safe!)

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Comments

@JPNox
Great video<br><br>I wouldn&#39;t say privacy is dead, but (at a risk of falling into sunk cost fallacy) I&#39;d say it seems too late, that our information is mostly out there already, out of our reach
@c1oudsky
more people should at least consider these points
@lambajyothikayadav6627
Its like the safeguard and institutions and rules we build in real world and somehow we aren&#39;t catching upto that how different digital landscape is and its misuse in different terminology ...its like same shit but through medium of technology ... propaganda, misinformation,scamming,misuse of data ,censoring all occured through out history but with different mediums nd laws ,systems, institutions,safeguards and knowledge, awareness is put in place before .....its quite really sad rn now seeing another technology we dont understand,the laws around privacy arent even made now and our laws didnt even catch upto AI and how its been 2 years and feels like different type of misuse and harm is on the way when we gained this awareness and couldn&#39;t do better !
@lambajyothikayadav6627
I would love for you to talk on non personal data collecting nd how harmful that can be too especially in advertising and marketing ways !
@lambajyothikayadav6627
Is my argument is weak cause i dont want to use signal as its elon musk owned and look what he did to twitter
@mankindnecromancer
I would like to drop out privacy if anyone who is in power (including &quot;just&quot; having big money) would have even less privacy than me. This is best but impossible in reality model
@broidkanymore-zc4lt
tell me your bank info if u have nothing to hide loll
@TransGurl.VrilX.1488
Nothing is nothing which is nothing to nothing in relation to nothing which is more than nothing when you think about the nothing it produces. <br><br>Please atrau, don&#39;t stop reading.
@metaflortex
Newsflash: Signal is actually made and controlled by the CIA 😂
@ronjon7942
It&#39;s not that I have anything to hide. I have nothing I want to share.
@BlockedAds
A targeted group: “I have nothing to hide !!”. <br>MAGA: “Wear this arm band at all times for identification!”.
@syncagray
The next time someone says &quot;don&#39;t be paranoid about it, you have nothing to hide&quot;, I will explain them what happens to openly LGBTQ+ people in an Easter-European country. I do have something to hide... Yet, I don&#39;t think I&#39;m a bad person for it. So, is collective surveillance okay, when people still have things to hide they should not need to...?
@HaloWolf102
I was a late 2010s gradute student. &#39;Farenheit&#39; and &#39;1986&#39; was not included in our reading curriculum. I swear, the only reason why we have over reach when it comes to monitoring and data collection, is because these books were not included in public education.
@SyamDaRos-EndoManno
I was expecting to see a VPN ad anytime
@loxo5526
It&#39;s MY data and you are not allowed to touch it
@mabdivinedivine9682
Thank you 🙏🏽
@UglyPotato34
Princess carolyn cats
@monad_tcp
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcqh0ZSza50&amp;t=205">3:25</a> if you don&#39;t need to deliver a physical product to me, I&#39;m not sending you my real address, I&#39;m going to lie. I just provide fake information when any site ask for address.
@monad_tcp
&quot;I have nothing to hide&quot; I was talking about that the other day in relation to hiding all my monetary transactions. <br>You don&#39;t ever know when the government is going to make you commit tax evasion in the future. Yeah, they find data about your transactions and just retro-actively tax you for things that weren&#39;t taxed on the past..
@TrineDaely
Well... more reasons to stay single.