NOTHING TO HIDE Datalove #1
Our medical records, our poems, our drawings Our holiday requests, our first naughty chats online
Our favourite recipes, our bank listings, our appointments, our schedule, our overdrafts
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide !
If you have nothing to hide, why not let someone film your bedroom and bathroom?
All could be published on the internet...
If you have nothing to hide, let someone use your logins and password to your facebook and google accounts,
publish them to let everyone rummage through all your stuff.
Our to-do lists, Our tender sms Our angry letters and our list of contacts
Our favorite bars, our swimming pool hours our sworn arch enemies and the girl next door's name
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide !
To tell yourself - oh, whatever, I have nothing to feel guilty about therefore I have nothing to hide -
is totally disconnected from reality in which generalised surveillance by the NSA works on the principle of three degrees of separation.
If you've been in contact with someone who has been in contact with someone
who has a -perhaps long-lost- brother a guy with a beard who is suspected of terrorist activities
Then potentially all your email correspondence, your online presence, your phone calls
sms, all that, is spied upon by the NSA.
Our membership cards, our x-rays, our MRIs, photos of our parents, our monthly income statement
Our weight in chocolate, our favourite drugs Videos of our cat and our political beliefs
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide !
Those things we want to keep to ourselves, that is our intimacy it's where we go play with theories, where we experiment
try thoughts and things out, make mistakes, say yes and then... no.
It's where that, which some call creativity, happens. And that is what's threatened
when one feels under surveillance. When we're under surveillance.
Those unsent message drafts, our doctor's address Our detailed travel logs, our electricity meter reading
Our sexual preferences, when we think about it Aren't all as personal as one would like to think
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide !
It's a fact that we all have something to hide. From our partner, from our colleagues, from our friends and acquaintances, our employer.
We all have something that we want to keep out of sight. It's obvious that our behaviour changes
when we feel spied upon, under surveillance, when we cannot benefit from anonymity
that is part of our privacy just as it is part of our freedom of expression.
Our morning read, our clicks and our nightmares Our newspaper sources, how early we get up
Our job interviews, the amount of tax we pay, what we mean by "the Left" and the size of our desk.
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide !
If you believe you have nothing to hide, if you don't give a damn, and if you want to give it all to google and facebook,
you don't realise that you're also handing over part of your correspondents', your friends', your family's data to Google and Facebook.
Political representation must impose strict protections of privacy and personal data.
Also, intelligence and surveillance activities have to be brought under democratic control.
Except, of course, our privacy We have no-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
Except, of course, our little secrets We have no-, no-, no-, nothing to hide !