A review of Daniel Solove’s article: “I’ve got nothing to.
Earlier this fall, I came across an essay, “Why privacy matters even if you have nothing to hide”. Taken from a book written by Daniel J. Solove, a law professor at George Washington University, the piece provides a somewhat wordy argument for a more encompassing view of how privacy might be compromised in an era of big data. Before I read Solove's essay, I’d been thinking a bit about.
In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: I've got nothing to hide.
Daniel J. Solove is a professor of law at George Washington University. This essay is an excerpt from his new book, Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security, published this month by Yale University Press.
In his reface, Solove explains that this book was inspired by public comments he received for an P online essay he wrote titled “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misperceptions of Privacy.
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Nothing to Hide makes a powerful and compelling case for reaching a better balance between privacy and security and reveals why doing so is essential to protect our freedom and democracy. Daniel J. Solove is John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School.
I don't have anything to hide. But I don't have anything I feel like showing you, either. If you have nothing to hide, then you don't have a life. Show me yours and I'll show you mine. It's not about having anything to hide, it's about things not being anyone else's business. Bottom line, Joe Stalin would (have) loved it.