So, you say you have nothing to hide?
The old master
rose gardener, "Chuckles" Beria agrees:
"If you have done nothing wrong, comrade, then you have nothing to fear."
- Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953), chief of the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) under Stalin
Bear in mind that once
collected, information is
forever. The rules, not so much.
The rules may change. Once the surveillance and access is in place to enforce rules you may agree with, the ruleset being enforced can change in ways you do not agree with at all. Always consider how a system can be abused by a power worse than a relatively benevolent one.
It's not you who determines if you have something to fear. You may think you are clean, but if you happen to set off a red flag in an automated oversight system, you will be placed under a bureaucratic microscope. You might think you are squeaky clean, but when viewed by an outsider who expects to find something suspicious, some of your activity will be suspicious. Breakfast on Tuesday morning with some other old pharts at the coffee shop? Organized subversive conspiracy, especially after they review the tape with that political rant...
And that assumes that the surveillance and collection even has the correct data...
Laws must be broken for society to progress; that is, if a society actually enforces all its laws it will stop dead in its tracks. Or when driving through town, do you keep the car under seven miles an hour, and have a man waving a red lantern walking ahead of the vehicle? If a frog is killed in a frog-jumping competition, it may not be eaten (CA Fish & Game Code 6883). You didn't buy a cold ginger ale in that store, did you (Indiana Code 7.1-3-10-5)? And of course, nobody ever commits adultery in Michigan (Michigan Penal Code Act 328 of 1931 Sect. 750.30). You may be committing multiple crimes every day already.
Privacy is a basic human need. You really have nothing to hide? You won't mind if
we install these cameras in your bedroom and bathroom, then. Don't worry, under the current rules
only select agents will have access to the
camera feeds. And we promise not to keep the recordings
too long...