Stop saying stupid stuff like:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Start saying:
"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."
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If we didn't have nothing to hide, passwords wouldn't be a thing. ☝🏻
“If you have nothing to suspect, you have nothing to surveil.”
@Tutanota A free country doesn't tax the poor
@Tutanota Nice words about privacy, but the actual practice tells a different story. You market yourselves as the ethical alternative to Google, criticizing how it disrespects user privacy. So how am I supposed to understand that when I use a VPN to protect my identity, you block me from creating an account? I get that this might be to prevent fraud, but the result is that you're tying my account to my real location from the very first moment.
@Tutanota I just ask them what color their underwear is. And to prove it.
Makes the point quickly.
@Tutanota The best response to this I have heard comes from Finch in Person of Interest.
"People who say that they have nothing to hide, usually do."
@Tutanota but if it's free then you are the product. What's the catch 
@Tutanota an innocent government has nothing to hide from its citizens
@Tutanota A free country also doesn't track *all* of its citizens just because a few of them might not be innocent.
When a free country surveilles its citizens, it's no longer a free country.
@Tutanota I was applying with a temp agency once and asked them if I could request a waiver of the private arbitration clause in the contract (my previous agency had a waiver process).
The agent got huffy about it, said "That language shouldn't matter unless you plan to commit a crime."
I responded, "My constitutional right to a jury trial shouldn't matter unless you plan on falsely accusing me of one." That didn't go over great.
