“Privacy is a fundamental human right.” This can be found on Apple’s website as one of their core foundations in their products. You can debate me on whether or not they actually live up to that statement, but I would say it is a good goal, nonetheless. People often counter statements about privacy in today’s modern world with the fact that they have nothing to hide. This, in my opinion, is missing the point. The point of privacy is that people have the choice on how much about themselves to reveal to the public. Steve Jobs mentioned in an interview one time that privacy means people know what they’re signing up for. He said that some are more comfortable sharing information than others, but that you still ought to ask people about the use of their data, every time. This is the ideal state of technology companies, but with the modern internet that has ceased to be the norm. Regardless, that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t care. The fact that you have nothing to hide doesn’t mean there aren’t things that you want the entire world to know about. Oftentimes information about a person will change hands many times, and the person doesn’t even know about it. That ought not to be the case, even though you have nothing to hide.
P.S. Obviously people should be accountable to their close friends and family about their lives, not filled with secrets, but that does not undermine my point.
Further content:
Steve Jobs on privacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-jlF98SzA
Long YouTube video on privacy and Apple by the channel “uncoverage”: https://youtu.be/yynFL-n6pEY?si=gWeN-jiRk1nkfjQh