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• Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
  
  When the government gathers or analyzes personal information, many people say they're not worried. "I've got nothing to hide," they declare. "Only if you're doing something wrong should you worry, and then you don't deserve to keep it private." The nothing-to-hide argument pervades

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[valatan]

This sentence:

But employers worry that the time sheet app, along with other new initiatives, could encourage even more wage and hour lawsuits

Infuriates the living fuck out of me. Sure, If you defraud motherfucking workers of their fucking wages, they're going to sue you. That's their only motherfucking remedy under our current system. What the hell else do you expect them to do?

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That was my reaction as well.

In context it sounded as if they were worried about the extra work load that they didn't have the capacity to handle, but I don't really give a shit about that, either.

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Sorry, I meant the agency, not the employers.

[siderea]

Infuckingdeed.

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Very occasionally I rewrite for clarity. This was one of those times.

[jabber]

This is disappointing, but not surprising. Proximal bias is a well understood phenomenon.

http://youtu.be/c-4flnuxNV4

[conuly]

Once again, all your links rock.

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*blush*

nothing to see here

[litch]

the "nothing to hide" argument is one of the worst possible ones for transparency but even that turd has some value if you compost it enough

as privacy vanishes, the warts, blemishes, and saggy fat bits of our lives we try to hid with shadows, make-up and duck-face are going to become more and more apparent, inescapable. And when that happens society has to adjust, adapt to accept them. Slowly, painfully and haltingly but it will come about.

the problem with "nothing to hide" then is really just about time scale, and in the long run everyone's a dead troll