Stop saying stupid stuff like: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

[stylus@social.afront.org]

@Tutanota an innocent government has nothing to hide from its citizens

[vascorsd@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota but if it's free then you are the product. What's the catch

[max@toet.dnzm.nl]

@Tutanota The question "do you have anything to hide?" is the wrong one. The correct question is "is it any of their business?", and the answer usually is "fuck no".

[j_lighter@privacysafe.social]

@pkoopmanpk @Npars01 I see. But not only that, I could recognize it from the style.

And after some seconds I could verify from this

[pkoopmanpk@mastodon.nl]

@j_lighter I try not to judge it on style. For example, @davidrevoy 's art gets called AI because of his style. AI steals art, so this style has an official artist. But I do agree that this style is used a lot in other AI slop.

[vlk@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota The best response to this I have heard comes from Finch in Person of Interest.

"People who say that they have nothing to hide, usually do."

[mayk@mastodon.nl]

@Tutanota Privacy is important!

and it should start at Privacy standard friendly Gmail, Youtube, Facebook, Whatsapp, Outlook, Office, etc

[knowprose@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota I just ask them what color their underwear is. And to prove it.

Makes the point quickly.

[ahmedelqadey@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Nice words about privacy, but the actual practice tells a different story. You market yourselves as the ethical alternative to Google, criticizing how it disrespects user privacy. So how am I supposed to understand that when I use a VPN to protect my identity, you block me from creating an account? I get that this might be to prevent fraud, but the result is that you're tying my account to my real location from the very first moment.

[ahmedelqadey@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota The issue isn't that you're making a security tradeoff it's that you talk about privacy as if it's absolute, without being upfront about exceptions like this one. If your privacy has limits, say so honestly, instead of marketing it as if it's complete.

[lionvibration@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota A free country doesn't tax the poor

[vero@moe.onl]

@Tutanota@mastodon.social a free country?

[argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Tutanota

“If you have nothing to suspect, you have nothing to surveil.”

[iju@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

If we didn't have nothing to hide, passwords wouldn't be a thing.

[network@cmx.dongzhim.in]

@Tutanota 中国是最自由的国家

[k_leyton_cooper@mastodon.social]

@Npars01 @Tutanota
True dat

[yora@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Tutanota Just because you did nothing wrong, doesn't mean an evil regime won't persecute for it.

[miquel@dice.camp]

@Tutanota the problem with this rhetoric is that implies that it is only bad when governments do it (it's the libertarian idea that "only the government can do violence").

Of course, I want authorities to be able to stop bad actors, but I also want big tech out of my coms.

This type of balance is hard to find, as it seems it must be all or nothing. Phone calls can be tapped with a judge order, it should be the same for electronic coms. But the phone company doesn't listen to my calls.

[tutanota@mastodon.social]

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