The Danger of "Nothing to Hide": How Complacency Strengthens Surveillance Systems

There's a special kind of contempt I reserve for the person who says, 'I have nothing to hide.' It's not the gentle pity you'd have for the naive. It's the cold, hard anger you hold for a collaborator.

Because these people aren't just surrendering their own liberty. They're instead actively forging the chains for the rest of us.

Their argument is a 'pathology of the present tense,' a failure of imagination so profound it borders on a moral crime.

What they fail to understand is that by living as an open book, they are creating the standard by which all are judged.