To which I would ask &quot;Under what circumstances would the government pay a federal agent to watch me have sex for the next 10 years?&quot;  This and the similar comparisons that I often see raised in response to the &quot;I have nothing to hide&quot; argument are ridiculous hypotheticals that are raised without taking into account who is violating the subject&#x27;s privacy and why.  When someone says &quot;I have nothing to hide&quot; it&#x27;s generally short for &quot;I have committed no crimes and I trust law enforcement officials to a) only invade someone&#x27;s privacy when they have reasonable grounds (implying that they got a warrant); and b) use any data collected only in pursuit of actual criminal investigations (e.g. they&#x27;re not going to steal my credit cards and broadcast naked pictures all over the internet).<p>If you&#x27;re going to change people&#x27;s minds with that argument, you need to be able to demonstrate that people&#x27;s data is being routinely searched without just cause and&#x2F;or police are routinely abusing the fruits of those searches.