That’s just a restatement of the failed “if you’ve got nothing to hide” argument.
I am truly tired of having to fight for every scrap of personal privacy in this modern world. I have ad blockers, DNS blockers, script blockers, VPNs, and more, just to be online.
And I refuse to buy certain “smart” things that connect to their cloud, even though they might do exactly what I want, because they silently hand over my data to unknown third parties. Or even the seller: what right does Phillips have to know when I turn on a light?
We’re promised the right “to be secure in [our] persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” Which again elevates encryption to table stakes. We shouldn’t ever have to justify encryption, we should instead expect it, and be supremely disappointed by its absence.
