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People with nothing to hide need not be bothered about surveillance, Supreme Court says
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this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
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'People with nothing to hide' don't exist. All of us have something that we'd like to keep private or even secret.
Sometimes it's little silly things we do when nobody's watching, like tasting our pets' food. Other times it's porn and what specific kind we read/watch/play. And in a tiny, miniscule minority of cases it's crime. Even fewer of those cases are crimes that actually hurt anyone.
Depriving 99.99% of the population (the remaining 0.01% are politicians) of basic rights just to pretend you're stopping crime that 0.001% of the population is comitting. Pretend, because we know it doesn't even work anyway.
Nearly 25 years of mass, global surveillance by the NSA, CIA and FBI, and they failed to catch even a single terrorist or terrorist-to-be. Meanwhile there's a public shooting almost every day.
It's not just about basic human rights or fundamental principles of society. These programs simply don't work. It's a waste of resources. The only result is bulk data gathering on the citizens. I wonder what that could be used for...?
And when they did catch mass shooters or terrorists it was usually due to an informant or someone who knew the would-be criminal and reported on them.
Meaning a trick that dates literally to antiquity is still the main way they are thwarted.