Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data.
But, when I talk to people in general, most seem to not worry because they "have nothing to hide", and most are only worried about their passwords, banking apps and not much else.
So, why should people worry about data privacy even if they have "nothing to hide"?
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I usually show them this video of Pasco county using "predictive policing" (AKA "intelligence-led policing") to terrorize citizens into moving out of town.
I would point them to the actual investigation (which won a pulitzers in its own right.). The video isnt bad, its just piggybacking on data thats otherwise more complete and out there.
https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/
They did stop the program. But still, the acceptance of this type of stuff is concerning and may increase in prevalence.
This is the type of mundane shit that can be used against you. And its not isolated. At the bottom of the second link another sheriff was getting grades/behavior data from the school district as a means to make a list of harrassment victims and it wasnt until the DoE started an investigation that they stopped. And its not like other state or federal government agencies are particularly benevolent.
That's some straight Psycho-Pass shit.