Privacy isn’t about hiding wrongdoing. It’s about preventing abuse of power.

History repeats that lesson endlessly, and yet people still say, “If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.”

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Yeah that's a bullshit statement by tyrants and communist "if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear"

Yes it is! Unfortunately I feel like more and more people are being brainwashed with this way of thinking every day

It’s about both. But the good outweighs the bad. And many people are just ignorant of the value of many things.

Agreed. There’ll be bad actors but if it’s a choice between freedom for the majority, then I’ll always value that about all else!

Ditto.

Put another way: Who decides what is a wrongdoing...

Bingo! That’s my fear, it’s a lot of power for only a handful of people to have. Even if it started off with the best intentions, history shows that it’d be abused over time