495
People with nothing to hide need not be bothered about surveillance, Supreme Court says
(www.thehindu.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
495 points (98.4% liked)
Privacy
43957 readers
293 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
People aren't being "disappeared" for nebulous and secret reasons. They're being disappeared because they're brown, they speak a non-English language, or they have some minor criminal citation in the public record.
We're making up hypotheticals to be afraid of surveillance when the modern state is already snatching people up for very superficial and arbitrary reasons
That scope will narrow as time passes.
Now it's brown poor people. Soon it will be trans people. Maybe next brown rich people, or Muslims, or Socialists. Y'all know the poem.
They've already "declared" Antifa a terrorist group and fentanyl as a WMD, that's all the justification previous republican presidents have needed for starting wars and civil terror campaigns.
When they have to filter people by whatever undesirable trait they make an enemy out of next week, where will the information come from?
It's literally just guys in vans cruising around town snatching people. You don't need anything particularly high tech for that
Yes you do. If you're trying to find gays, it's not like they walk around in rainbow skin colors. How would the be identified?
Two men holding hands? A line of people marching in a pride parade? Anyone with Grindr installed on their phones?
Take your pick.
You don't think they are already using the surveillance state/surveillance capitalism in this process? Its not hypothetical, its just that the scope is narrow this moment.
A lot of people are being picked up at their immigration hearings, at traffic stops, and at their jobs. This is all information already in the public record. You don't need surveillance to be marked as a legal immigrant.