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Maybe they don't care about privacy because they're defining it as secrets that
people have. Snowden's description of privacy is much more powerful:
"And if we actually think about it, it doesn t make sense. Because privacy isn
t about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect. That s who
you are. That's what you believe in. Privacy is the right to a self. Privacy is
what gives you the ability to share with the world who you are on your own
terms. For them to understand what you re trying to be and to protect for
yourself the parts of you you re not sure about, that you re still
experimenting with.
"If we don t have privacy, what we re losing is the ability to make mistakes,
we re losing the ability to be ourselves. Privacy is the fountainhead of all
other rights. Freedom of speech doesn t have a lot of meaning if you can t have
a quiet space, a space within yourself, your mind, your community, your
friends, your family, to decide what it is you actually want to say.
"Freedom of religion doesn t mean that much if you can t figure out what you
actually believe without being influenced by the criticisms of outside
direction and peer pressure. And it goes on and on.
"Privacy is baked into our language, our core concepts of government and self
in every way. It s why we call it 'private property.' Without privacy you don t
have anything for yourself."