What Do You Have to Hide?
Trust one of my digital heroes - Bruce Schneier - to provide a definitive rebuttal to the tired cliché trotted out by all those who would put us under surveillance: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" Basically, it comes down to the fact thatPrivacy is ... a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
Read the piece for Schneier's paean to the "eternal value of privacy", as he puts it.