Right, I don't think I've ever actually seen anybody make the "nothing to hide" argument. Maybe it was used more commonly in the past, but I only ever see people pre-emptively attack it without prompting. It seems to be a special case of a straw-man argument: a no-man argument. It's not the only such example, but it seems to appear without fail in the top comments in any discussion of privacy issues.

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LexiMax 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I found somebody making this argument just the other day on Hacker News in regard to license plate tracking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250556

> In practice I'm not even getting "tracked". No one is likely to be looking up my license plate and looking at my movements, because I don't do anything that would warrant that kind of attention

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grindermaster 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People around me make the nothing to hide argument all the time

	▲	simulator5g 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It’s the obvious response to what seems like paranoia to the uneducated.

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jdpage 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I have had many people use it when I try to either push for a private option ("please message me on Signal") or explain why I won't use a service.