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The article addresses that exact retort, and others in the same style. Here is what it says.

> Such responses only attack the nothing to hide argument in its most extreme form, which is not particularly strong.

The article is way more nuanced, it makes a point in attacking the real argument and not the strawman. Framing the debate into a privacy/security tradeoff.

And btw, my naked body ranks pretty low in the list of things I want to hide. I just don't walk around naked in public because most people wouldn't want me to, it may even be illegal. It is interesting however how a government that says you should have nothing to hide when it comes to surveillance also says that naked bodies must stay hidden.




The most private part of your body is often not covered anyway. Your fingerprint.


In that perspective one could also mention that humans constantly keep discarding things that can possibly uniqeuely identify them: dna.


Or iris.

And then there's the people whose minds are so open their brains are falling out ... ;-)




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