[Cryptography] Response to "I don't have anything to hide"

[Bob Mahoney]

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 7:49 PM, Matthias Wulfeck <matthias.wulfeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How do you respond to "I don't have anything to hide"? How do you explain to non-technical (and non-paranoid) friends of what's really at stake?

I’ve sometimes pointed people at this paper.  Well thought-out and well-organized:

“I’ve Got Nothing To Hide” And Other Misunderstandings Of Privacy"
by Daniel J. Solove  George Washington University Law School

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~greenie/privacy/solove.pdf
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