Privacy

30871 readers

532 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

932

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. (mullvad.net)

submitted 2 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

94 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop caring about anyone fighting for their freedom. And one day, you might be one of them.

(page 2) 47 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] waitwuhtt@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I have nothing to hide, but I will hide it anyway.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't know where I read it but the best defence to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" is "I don't have anything to hide but I don't trust your judgment or intentions"

[–] whodoctor11@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

investigative journalists in authoritarian countries

You mean like the US? Who achieved the feat of persecuting a foreign journalist as if he were an American citizen?

EDIT: I know that Mullvad is also critical of american surveillance, but I find it very funny that when in the West they call a state democratic that does exactly the same (or worse) than a state in the East that they call "authoritarian". It really reveals how empty of meaning this word is. "Ah, but these Western states have 'democratic institutions'." News for you: the states you call "authoritarian" have them too. In both cases, they can be and de facto are dictatorships.

[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There are a surprising number of grammatical errors in that blog post. Did anyone proof read it, I wonder?

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments