“I have nothing to hide.”
Robert Williams didn’t either.
He was arrested at home in front of his wife and young daughters because his old driver’s license photo matched grainy footage.
Prosecutors dropped the charges.
Nothing to hide was never the same as nothing to fear.
German court proves that Google is SPYING on us 😡
On Tuesday, a German court ruled that by showing aerial images of a man's private property on Google Earth & Google Maps, the Big Tech company is BREAKING German privacy laws 🚨
This is a win for all of us and our right to privacy because #privacymatters ✊
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Blue Shield of California shared the sensitive health information of 4.7 million people with Google Ads.
Not hacked.
Not leaked.
Handed over, as part of how the systems were set up to work together.
Your diagnosis became an ad targeting input.
Personal information shows up in 65% of shadow AI incidents.
Not the employee's data.
Yours.
Your medical note.
Your loan application.
Your customer file.
Pasted into a tool you never used, sent to a server you'll never know about.
You consented.
It says so in the box you clicked.
That box took one click to check and eleven to uncheck, spread across four menus each asking if you were sure.
That's not consent.
That's a toll booth built to look like a door.
Edward Snowden said it the best:
"When you say 'I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide,' that's no different than saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say.'"
"Simply because you are following the law, doesn't mean that you'll be exempt from governmental interference in your private life."
It's insane that the government can just bypass warrant requirements by purchasing access to everything you do. The Surveillance Accountability Act fixes this. https://t.co/aHNiBqVVHh
Hackers don’t break in. They log in.
90% of cyberattacks start with one "normal" email.
One click, one mistake.
Your habits are a better defense than any firewall.
3 quick rules:
1. Pause on urgency
2. Hover over links
3. Verify the sender
Stay sharp. #prose
"Boundaries make you difficult to work with."
The colleague who never says no is also never asked what they actually want.
"Easy to work with" and "easy to deprioritize" share an org chart.
Nobody promotes the person they can always reschedule.
"If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."
The same officials saying this classify their own briefings.
The same agencies citing this seal their own case files.
Nobody in power has ever applied this standard to themselves.
"Facial recognition is a border thing, it doesn't touch my daily life."
CVS uses it.
Home Depot uses it.
Target, Walmart, Macy's use it.
You passed three cameras before you even reached airport security.
The border was never the edge.
It was the demo.
Privacy isn’t just about "hiding." There are 4 types:
- Physical
- Psychological
- Spatial
- Informational
The 4th one is what we lose every time we click "I Accept" without reading.
Pro Se is here to break down that complexity for you.
Which one is hardest to protect today?