"I have nothing to hide."
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@Tutanota I tried what that guy on YouTube said: when people tell me they have nothing to hide I ask them to share their email password with me. I promise to do no wrong at all, I'd just login occasionally, read some emails and leave. No damage, no writing, no deleting, no traces left. So far they all refused
@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???
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@Tutanota Law enforcement's members have political and personal motivations, beyond what the law requires, so everyone has someone to hide.
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@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.
@crazyeddie @Tutanota sure I'll send you a voucher for a coke from Amazon if you share your password with me
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@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???
@falcennial @Tutanota that's a great question!
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@crazyeddie @Tutanota sure I'll send you a voucher for a coke from Amazon if you share your password with me
@pepintheshort @Tutanota I don't know it
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@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?
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i like the sequence:
i have nothing to hide. but that is also none of your business -
"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
That's why we should own our own data and decide who gets to access it
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@The_Universality @Tutanota "I have nothing to hide." ... "Why am I being arrested for having my Nixon out?"
@crazyeddie @Tutanota What is Nixon? This is the first time I hear about this.
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@Tutanota I stopped arguing with people that says that. Because they even doesn't care if their medical history and everything gets leaked.
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@Tutanota I tried what that guy on YouTube said: when people tell me they have nothing to hide I ask them to share their email password with me. I promise to do no wrong at all, I'd just login occasionally, read some emails and leave. No damage, no writing, no deleting, no traces left. So far they all refused
@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.
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@Tutanota isn't "I have nothing to hide" used when someone doesn't have any evidence against them on something.
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@crazyeddie @Tutanota What is Nixon? This is the first time I hear about this.
@The_Universality @Tutanota Nixon -> Richard -> Dick
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@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?”
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@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.
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@pepintheshort @Tutanota I don't know it
@crazyeddie @Tutanota what an unfortunate coincidence!
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@The_Universality @Tutanota Nixon -> Richard -> Dick
@crazyeddie Oh I get it no.
Quite funny indeed.
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@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.
@rhoot @Tutanota exactly, I think many people mix up privacy with dodgy off the books affairs and that's quite wrong, as you pointed out. During school I liked Pokémon and didn't want anyone to find out. Some people travel to destinations where being gay is illegal. Your ideology you write about is fine here and now but might attract troubles in the future (cough cough Trump) there are many legit examples
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
The petrostate oligarchs funding AI surveillance technology come from nations accustomed to serfs & slaves.
https://sources.news/p/mark-zuckerberg-meta-muse-ai-podcast-interviewhttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-bricks-perv-smart-glasses
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-glasses-camera-disabled-tampering-recording-light-update-2026-9
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/meta-settlement-social-media-facebook-whatsapp-glasses/
Feels like home to them when everyone is being watched & it can be bricked remotely at any time.
https://www.cnbc.com/2012/05/16/a-russian-magnates-facebook-bet-pays-off-big.html
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russian-billionaire-usmanov-buys-stake-in-apple-46010
https://www.dw.com/en/the-russian-oligarchs-of-the-fincen-files/a-55062675
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-richest-billionaires-putin-getting-wealthier-fast-2108587
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"I have nothing to hide."
False.
You have medical history
You have financial behavior
You have location patterns
You have political views
You have relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
@Tuta "I don't care if anyone knows that about me," said by the same person as, "Oh my god, Youtube just recommended me something and I was just thinking about it, this is so scary, how does it do that?!"
