Nothing to hide ≠ nothing to fear…

Nothing to hide ≠ nothing to fear…

Nothing to hide ≠ nothing to fear…

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The Guardian

As the world’s governments march toward universal surveillance, their ignorance of psychology is clear at every step. Even in the 2009 House of Lords report “Surveillance: Citizens and the State” – a document that is critical of surveillance – not a single psychologist is interviewed and, in 130 pages, not a single reference is made to decades of psychological research.

We ignore this evidence at our peril. Psychology forewarns us that a future of universal surveillance will be a world bereft of anything sufficiently interesting to spy on – a beige authoritarian landscape in which we lose the ability to relax, innovate, or take risks. A world in which the definition of “appropriate” thought and behaviour becomes so narrow that even the most pedantic norm violations are met with exclusion or punishment. A world in which we may even surrender our very last line of defence – the ability to look back and ask: Why did we do this to ourselves?

A thoughtful and well-researched article on the true human costs of mass surveillance.

And a brilliant commentary on the psychological ignorance of those promoting it or pretending that those with nothing to hide will not be harmed by it…

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