A Statistical Problem with Nothing-to-Hide

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I've been looking for that holy grail, the persuasive rebuttal against the "nothing to hide" argument. This is it, for me.

Well, this plus the analogy to Kafka's The Trial that I picked up from, I believe, that Chronicle article that passed around a while ago.

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...

It is nice because it is logical and not philosophical. I remember seeing similar discussions regarding mining for terrorist suspects. The only part of this argument that is up for debate is how accurate the techniques are.

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