Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011)
I've always liked using the social good argument from the same author's previous work[1].<p>"I don't mind giving up some privacy for safety. I've got nothing to hide."<p>"Well privacy isn't something you can just give up. It's a right given to society by our framers, not individuals. A smoothly functioning democracy depends on dissent, which requires privacy to allow alternate points of view to gain traction. So privacy is a social good, not a personal right, and if we reduce privacy, we are reducing our democracy. The Soviets didn't have privacy. Free countries must."<p>That last part is usually what does the trick.<p>[1]: <a href="http://tehlug.org/files/solove.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://tehlug.org/files/solove.pdf</a>