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Why should we care about our privacy?

2 points by Eliahu_horwi ↗ HN
Every body always advocates for privacy but I have yet to found a real answer to why should we actually care so much about our privacy especially if the problem faced is real advancement or creating a society where we are all safer. As an example we have many laws which limit the police and government in the why they can get evidence, many of these laws are in place in order to protect our privacy, why shouldn't we allow the police to get what ever information needed in any way they need ( as long as they don't hurt any one in the process), this could create a safer environment for us all.

Just as a side note I am not talking about giving up our privacy for private corporations to make profits in (I.E Facebook, Google etc) but only to causes which can improve the human race and society such as DNA reasrch, police and othets

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just_observing
When you tell me all about you... I will explain.
kp1
^Exactly!

Please tell us everything about you, your family, personal life, financial situation, where you live, your age, your ethnicity, where you work...etc

Govt/Police already abuse the power they have. Once they have the private info of individuals they will abuse it. I.E intelligence community.

Eliahu_horwi
This was a serious question, I am not saying we should give our information to anyone but in the face of making the world a safer and better place what kind if personal information don't you want there to be known.

Just for clarification, I am myself not sure where I stand, I just want to be convinced that I should care about my privacy and your argument dosent convince me

[dead] spitfire 

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB
All sorted now? Good.

The snark is necessary. It's such a dangerous question and the answer has been given clearly and devastatingly by history. Tens or hundreds of millions of people have died because they lost their privacy.

It could be you too, if you're the out of favour group this week.

Eliahu_horwi
Edit: I have found this post and there are many others like this which all make a valid point. The question is at what cost, the current cost of our privacy is crimes not solved or worst solved crimes that can't be brought to justice since the evidence are not applicable. Furthermore we have research which is being held back due to privacy, think of what the medical industry do with the blood samples or DNA of every person on the planet. What I am looking for is an argument which will make it worth it.

https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why...