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As Doctorow points out, 'Saying security and privacy don't matter because you have nothing to hide is like saying freedom of speech doesn't mater because you have nothing to say.'
It's a very short-sighted view. Those rights will be taken from you if you don't protect them.
That doesn’t work for the “the big companies know everything about me anyway” line though
They may know everything about you right now. But they don't know about your future self, how you can change, how you may be an entirely different person in as little as a year. Data is useful, but it is more useful the more updated and recent it is.
Well I think it does, because they don't know literally everything about us yet. But they will one day if we don't fight back.
You’re missing the point. It doesn’t matter what you or I believe, if a person has accepted that a big corporation knows everything about them and use this as a reason not to take action or prevent them from knowing more, then the Doctorow quote doesn’t apply.