• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I never really understood the “I have nothing to hide” mindset.

    This subject is best summed up by the Girl in Andrew Niccol’s vastly underrated movie Anon:

    “It’s not that I have something to hide, I have nothing I want you to see”

    This is the most intelligent, best articulated commentary on privacy I’ve ever seen and it fits in 17 words.

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      1 year ago

      “It’s not that I have something to hide, I have nothing I want you to see”

      This didn’t really resonate with me at all. Can you explain more?

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        1 year ago

        When you says “resonate”, do you mean you don’t understand the sentence? Or do you mean you don’t see why you should care?

        Re meaning, the sentence seems blindingly obvious to me. But maybe it isn’t… It means you don’t want privacy because you have something illegal to hide in your house, but because you don’t want to invite anybody in. I really don’t know how to explain it anymore clearly without repeating it verbatim.

        If you don’t see why this is important or you think it doesn’t concern you, send me your address and I’ll come around tonite to take pictures of your furniture without your permission.

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          I’m a bit off-put by your tone, but no, I was being genuine. Saying it doesn’t resonate means whatever was said doesn’t seem as profound or meaningful as it does to the person who said it. So the phrase really means that you want to shut everyone out? I guess that makes sense, given the hostility in your response.