Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody
has said to me, "I don't really worry about invasions of privacy because I don't have anything to
hide." I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write down my email address. I
say, "Here's my email address. What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords
to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of
them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I
want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person, if
you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide." Not a single person has taken me up
on that offer.
By Glenn Greenwald in Why privacy matters - TED Talk