Privacy Matters Even If You Have Nothing To Hide

The Price of Safety is the Loss of Privacy Solove expresses his point of view on privacy as "Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have Nothing to Hide.” I strongly agree his statement because if a person has a valid reason to keep something private, it is highly contemptuous in forcing them to reveal it. It is their basic freedom to choose their content to be revealed. The “Nothing to hide” argument creates a serious consequence on people’s mind that only wrong doers have to worry about hiding the data. Everybody probably has something to hide from somebody. Some people are convinced with the evidence that tracking phone calls, monitoring the people’s activities have saved the country’s security, which is inferred from “security interest in preventing

One is identified as monitoring the public and the second, extracting the private information for processing and leaving it in threat. Orwellian metaphor is the former. It denotes an attitude of surveillance, and its potential risk. Government as an act of surveilling people will collect their information in a very large database. Some people are not concerned about concealing their personal information and not bothered if others know it. The latter is the Franz Kafka's,the author of the aricle ‘The Trial’ the story of a man arrested and prosecuted with the nature of his private information. The authority act of using people’s information to make important decisions about them is not always right. Additionally it also denies the people ability to participate in knowing ‘how their information is used’. Solove portrays Kafkaesque metaphor as a different form compared to the problems caused by surveillance. He says that the problems lies in information processing. For example, suppose government officials learn that a person has bought a number of books on how to manufacture methamphetamine. That information makes them suspect that he’s building a meth lab, but he writes a novel where the character builds meth lab (345). At this point that particular person is being wrongly framed, for his undeliberate action and the information is processed in a wrong manner.

The author explains ‘power imbalance between people and the government’ (344), the process of gathering the information creates a status between the government authority and people under subject. Solove refers this as structural problem. It is identified as exclusion situation when people are stopped from being aware about how information about them is being processed and they are clogged from accessing and correcting errors in that