"I have nothing to hide."

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota Did you offer them anything?

Someone did that to me but they offered me a free email account and I said, "Yeah, sure...whatever. Here you go."

I've heard a coke can go a long way. Give someone a Coke and then ask your ridiculous favor.

[bishopjoey@writing.exchange]

@Tutanota And louder for the folks in the back: Orwell's 1984 was a *warning* not an *instruction manual*.

And yet? Here we are.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@The_Universality @Tutanota "I have nothing to hide." ... "Why am I being arrested for having my Nixon out?"

[farbel@mas.to]

@Tutanota I personally don't care who knows any of that shit about me, but people who do care should have a choice, and that choice should be opt in, not opt out.

[falcennial@mastodon.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota but they don't have anything to hide, so I don't understand.

on what basis did they not give you the password???

[oshox@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota Law enforcement's members have political and personal motivations, beyond what the law requires, so everyone has someone to hide.

[pepintheshort@ieji.de]

@crazyeddie @Tutanota sure I'll send you a voucher for a coke from Amazon if you share your password with me

[pepintheshort@ieji.de]

@falcennial @Tutanota that's a great question!

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota I don't know it

[janpaul@troet.cafe]

@Tutanota
That's what I keep telling people. The usual answer is just: "Yeah, but why should anybody be interested in this?"

Well, I don't know. But some people are. Isn't this fact enough to be concerned?

[h0nza@pix.securelab.eu]

i like the sequence:
i have nothing to hide. but that is also none of your business

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota

That's why we should own our own data and decide who gets to access it

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@crazyeddie @Tutanota What is Nixon? This is the first time I hear about this.

[d4v@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota I stopped arguing with people that says that. Because they even doesn't care if their medical history and everything gets leaked.

[rhoot@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pepintheshort @Tutanota there was a teacher on fedi some time ago (sorry, don't remember who) that said their students would often say they have nothing to hide. And when they did, they would tell them "okay good, tell the rest of the class about the last time you masturbated", and the entire class immediately got it.

[tylilbro@mastodon.social]

@Tutanota isn't "I have nothing to hide" used when someone doesn't have any evidence against them on something.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@The_Universality @Tutanota Nixon -> Richard -> Dick

[dmir@gehirneimer.de]

@Tutanota@mastodon.social I think saying to the people using the argument never realize how much they care about their own privacy. They think that having “nothing to hide” is some sort of a virtue, something to strive for, because that’s what good people have and good people don’t get into trouble - and you just can’t argue with a person’s belief of their own virtuousness if you want to persuade them.

“What would you like to show to complete strangers?” yields far more privacy-minded answers in my experience, or “What are you okay with giving away about yourself?”

[phaedral@beige.party]

@Tutanota And anyway, the issue isn't whether or not I have anything to hide, it's whether or not my business is any of theirs. It's not. My business is none of the government's or big tech's business. They need to keep their flipping noses to themselves. That's the point. I don't have to justify anything. They're the ones overstepping bounds poking their nose places they don't belong all in the name of greed. Don't accept the inverse frame. It's on them to justify a need to know. Otherwise none of it is anybody's business.

[pepintheshort@ieji.de]

@crazyeddie @Tutanota what an unfortunate coincidence!