{"id":35747,"date":"2018-11-01T11:36:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35747"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:06:26","slug":"privacy-and-the-nothing-to-hide-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/privacy-and-the-nothing-to-hide-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy and the \u2018nothing to hide\u2019 argument:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/kA7bY2M5gtpIkjtJgDAyxK\/Privacy-and-the-nothing-to-hide-argument.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy and the \u2018nothing to hide\u2019 argument<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The argument wrongfully equates privacy with secrecy, even though the former is a distinct and much richer concept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The argument, \u201cI have got nothing to hide\u201d wrongfully equates privacy with secrecy, even though the former is a distinct and much richer concept.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right to privacy includes a bundle of rights such as the privacy of beliefs, thoughts, personal information, home, and property.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arguments such as \u201cI have got nothing to hide\u201d argument represent a common misconception of the meaning and value of the right to privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the argument, only people with something to hide, or those who have done something wrong, are concerned about the loss of privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If one has nothing to hide, then information about them cannot really be used against you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the argument proceeds that no harm should be caused to them by the breach of their privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Arguments against \u201cI have got nothing to hide\u201d:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of privacy takes a short-term view of privacy and data collection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data once collected can be used, misused, shared, and stored in perpetuity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worse, it can be combined with other individually inconsequential data points to reveal extremely significant information about an individual.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surveillance programmes are problematic even when there is no \u201cundesirable\u201d information that people want to keep hidden.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is vulnerability of the citizens created by the system\u2019s use of his personal data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we believe we are being observed, we are more likely to behave according to socially accepted norms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The change in behaviour, thus, has less to do with the content of our actions, but more to do with the knowledge of being watched.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy and the \u2018nothing to hide\u2019 argument:\u00a0 The argument wrongfully equates privacy with secrecy, even though the former is a distinct and much richer concept. Context: The argument, \u201cI have got nothing to hide\u201d wrongfully equates privacy with secrecy, even though the former is a distinct and much richer concept. 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