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Not a useful argument; anyone making the "nothing to hide" argument is implicitly arguing the trustworthiness (or the low likelihood of a mistake impacting them) of the state/justice system. You and other members of the general public are not part of that.

This is also why the snippy "so you don't have (locks on your doors/blinds on your windows/etc.)?" comeback does not work.


> "nothing to hide" argument is implicitly arguing the trustworthiness (or the low likelihood of a mistake impacting them) of the state/justice system

There is a massive assumption that only justice systen will have access to this data. We know this data is sold to anyone, even criminals.


Who makes up the state and justice system? Is it not people?


"Officer" is indeed a subclass of "Person", but the former includes a StateAuthority mixin that modifies its acceptable and expected behavior in a number of ways that make it unreasonable to blindly substitute one for the other.




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