"I have nothing to hide" argument

Very smart fella conducting very naive smella to the good path

The "I have nothing to hide" argument is a argument (puh) being often used in surveillance/privacy discussions, mostly in the topic of data collection.

Definition

It suggests that they are indifferent in the topic of it, or only those who are hiding something illegal needs to actually hide themselves and protect their privacy in fear of being monitored.

Cases

Precise cases of usage of this argument is when someone is asked to not use centralized social media or use a privacy-friendly OS for their devices such as PostmarketOS or LineageOS for phones, or Linux distributions for their computer.

Eventually, the person saying this precises to be naive and dumb, because they do not know exactly how much data corporation stores about them nor they haven't seen, because a regular person would cry in fear if they would have actually seen how much data evil corporations stores and shares their data with who.

Prevention

Use Linux, flash your phone, use social media that actually respects your privacy. (Corporations are cheeky so you should be!)