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We Should All Have Something To Hide
You May Have 'Nothing to Hide' But You Still Have Something to Fear
In fact, masses of people are inhibited by fear of pervasive surveillance: after Snowden showed everyone how much the US tracks people's browsing, there was a 20% decrease in visits to Wikipedia pages about topics relating to terrorism.
This is in addition to the fact that massive surveillance endangers democracy, and that harms all of us.
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