{"id":10810,"date":"2022-09-15T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:48:18","slug":"everyone-has-something-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10810","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Has Something To Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most ridiculous arguments about privacy is the oft-stated \u201cIf you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.\u201d Irreal has many articles debunking this notion\u2014here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?s=nothing+to+hide\">list<\/a>\u2014but it seems the argument is evergreen.<\/p>\n<p>Kev Quirk has (yet another) post laying waste to this completely bogus idea. His post, <a href=\"https:\/\/kevquirk.com\/privacy-vs-i-have-nothing-to-hide\/\">Privacy vs \u201cI have nothing to hide\u201d<\/a>, takes a critical look at this outrageous  argument. If you\u2019ve followed the issue, nothing in Quirk\u2019s article will be surprising but he does point out the reason that no one reads those terms of service that companies use to excuse their behavior. For example, the Paypal terms of service of is longer (in words) than Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet. Likewise, the Appletunes terms of service are longer than Macbeth. No one, <i>no one<\/i>, is going to read through all that but the companies will cite your click through as evidence that you\u2019re fine with their spying on you.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve said before, if you hear someone raise this argument, walk away. The person advancing it either doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about or they\u2019re trying to run a scam on you. In either case, ignore them. We all, whether we have something to hide or not, are entitled to our privacy and should tell those who say otherwise to go pound sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most ridiculous arguments about privacy is the oft-stated \u201cIf you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.\u201d Irreal has many articles debunking this notion\u2014here\u2019s a list\u2014but it seems the argument is evergreen. Kev Quirk has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10811,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}