What to say to people who say this kinda of thing? Usually I just say “ok then”
Some variation of the below:
Can I have your phone with the messaging apps unlocked?
Can I log into your personal email?
Can I see your tax returns?
Can I set up cameras and microphones in your house?
Can I place a GPS tracker on your car?
It also works with opening up the info to anyone, not just you. That’s one of the key issues, even if a trusted party is accessing the info there’s a chance that a malicious party can get access too. Or the trusted party becomes malicious later (government changes, company changes hands, etc.)
People generally don’t want everything in their home live streamed 24/7. If anything it has the potential for abuse, like if someone knows when you’ll be out of home for a few hours
Insurance companies in some countries give you a discount if you agree to put a tracker on your car…
Or use their app on your phone, which will “detect your driving patterns” and adjust your rates accordingly.
But honestly, even without all that, modern cars already have trackers and Internet connections even without your knowledge. (Mine did a couple of impromptu OTA updates for the media center at the beginning. It also has an SOS button on the roof, which you need to be subscribed to use, but can activate the subscription through the button. This implies there is a GPS tracker, as well as a cellular connection).
“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
Giving up your right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is like giving up your freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
Ask them if they poop with the door open.
I take out a pad and pen, “what’s your bank credentials? Also, your [social media] credentials? I won’t use it against you. Promise. … No? I thought you have nothing to hide?” I put the pad away, and hold out my hand, “let me see you phone. I want to look through your pictures and internet history. … No again? Huh. I guess you do care about privacy.”
I guess they think they have nothing to hide, because they don’t know, or don’t care about, how their own information can be used against them.
Because it doesn’t happen in an obviously invasive manner, they don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s harder to associate an abstract concept to actual value.
I usually ask them to hand me their phone while its unlocked and that really makes some people think. Its funny because at the same time i have so little to hide that the only reason i have a passeord on my phone is because it makes stealing it harder. But im not gonna hand my data some random company just to watch braindead 30 second videos.
Gotta hit them with the “oh cool so let me see your phone and browsing history then”
We’re entitled to a reasonable amount of privacy, such as locks on our doors and curtains on our windows, why shouldn’t reasonable privacy also apply to our lives online?
Good one!
Ask to watch them pee. When they say no, ask what they do when they pee that they don’t want you to know about; that is the only reason they could want privacy, right?
“Okay, then hand me your phone unlocked and give me as much time as I want to poke around your browser history, files, and photos.”
Do you have curtains on your house? Why, if you have nothing to hide?
“To block the sunlight”
So you open them at night?
Unfortunately, A not too small amount answered no when I aked them…
…I’m now wondering if they change clothes in front of an open window
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If you saw a powerful but drunk person hit and run a child would you not report it to the police?
In the old days the powerful person would hire a private investigator to learn how to make your life misery to put you off testifying.
Nowadays they just need your internet history… unless you are fine with assholes getting away with killing kids of course.
“well, let me come over to your house uninvited and walk around the rooms looking through your personal belongings”.
