I’m gay and didn’t want people to know when I was younger. I think everybody who says they have nothing to hide has either not thought very deeply about what they may want to keep to themselves or does not understand the principle that people should only ever know about you what you want to share with them.

Also, if being an open book is the norm, everybody with good reasons to not be completely open (like I used to be) will eventually stand out from the crowd. Keeping everybody else’s private stuff private also means you can keep your own stuff private.

There’s a great quote from Snowden about the right to privacy you can look up here. Excerpt from the page:

"people saying they don’t care about rights to privacy because they ‘have nothing to hide’ are no different than people saying ‘I don’t care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say’ "

For me privacy is free speech, no one knows who I am, so I could say whatever I want.

Free speech never happens on Twitter, FB, Insta, cuz they all linked to our identity, or email, phone number…

I think it’s kind of sad that we need to ask the question of what got you into privacy, as opposed to what caused you to give up your privacy. I understand why we must the question, but it’s still sad to me. This is my answer, by the way. Because we need to ask “why privacy”, is the reason I want privacy.

When I had reddit (deleted a few years ago), I posted a screenshot of my android launcher, and someone pointed out that I was using google apps, and said “protect your privacy”, he gave me some resources and that’s where it all clicked for me. What a nice guy.