The best commentary I've ever heard on privacy was from the Girl in the movie Anon:

"It's not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see."

This to me encapsulates perfectly why everybody should want privacy.

IMO Snowden said it best; saying I'm against privacy because I have nothing to hide is like saying im against free speech because I have nothing to say.

It was also (Goebbels?) the Nazis who came up with that phrase.

Edit: Nazis (sic) came up with the "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" Not the rest!

Edit2: it was not they who invented it

We've had real life examples recently why this take is stupid. All the women who posted they were pregnant or wanted to get an abortion in Texas, suddenly they got prosecuted for it when the law changed and there suddenly wasn't a pregnancy anymore. You never know what's legal now and tomorrow not.

I wonder when "None of your business" left our general speech.

I have nothing to hide

Let me get a good look of that butthole then

Part of the freedom of expression should be the freedom to share. Or not share.

I have plenty to hide. And imma keep hiding that shit.

I think I will put it this way: I have nothing that I want you to see - and be a victim to your twisted imagination.

In 17th century China, Qing emperors sometimes walked the markets dressed as commoners. One day, the emperor stood at a bookstall, reading quietly. A breeze turned the pages beside him.

A nearby poet saw this and joked:

"The wind can’t read, why turn the pages?"

He was later executed. History did not even record his name.

In Chinese, "wind" shares a character with "Qing", the ruling dynasty.

Reference: https://tinyurl.com/4ment9ud

Maybe there is nowhere to hide

Trying to think of a relatable popculture argument against this:

Nothing to hide but the Epstein list.

Exactly. 'I have nothing to hide' is the surrender of a free mind.

Privacy isn't about hiding crimes. It's about preventing power from knowing everything — before it decides what you're allowed to think, say, or be.

This is the core of Chat Control 2.0: not protecting children, but normalizing total surveillance.

The lie is not just dumb. It's the foundation of the new control.