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You do have something to hide, you just don't realize it. A motivated actor can easily spin innocuous details of your life into evidence that you are engaging in some kind of 'bad' behavior or are a 'bad' person. The entire problem with the nothing to hide paradigm is that it inherently assumes you are innocent untill proven guilty. It assumes those with access to your data are fair, impartial, motivated only by the idea of justice. This doesn't work when you are functionally, constantly under investigation, not for a particular crime, but for literally any and all possible crimes. ... anyone who has ever had a rumor or gossip spread about them, or just observed that happening to another person, should understand how this works. You kind of have to be either an idiot or massively sheltered to not understand this. Oh, there's uh, also some legal precedent, if you're USAsian: > Fourth Amendment > > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. As you can see, the only way to get around this is to just grant the government the ability spy on you by way of basically secret, persistent, broad warrants... ... Or, devise an entire society where the norm is you freely give away all your 'papers and effects', because you didn't read the TOS, clicked the checkbox and then confirm, and that is taken to be a legally binding contract that waives your right to digital privacy. (Both of those are commonplace, common practice, for roughly 20 years now.)