# Privacy is Power. And You're Giving Yours Away **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/privacy-is-power-and-youre-giving-yours-away/30596 **Category:** Videos **Created:** 2025-08-29T01:09:15Z **Posts:** 12 ## Post 1 by @jordan — 2025-08-29T01:09:16Z Privacy isn’t about hiding secrets - it’s about power. In this video, we explain why thinking you “have nothing to hide” is a dangerous misconception, especially in our ever-connected digital age. Taking back your privacy is easier than you might think! Hey everyone a shorter video this week, but still an important one. We do have a larger project in the pipeline about browser fingerprinting which will be coming soon. Let me know what you think about the video - it’s focused more on connecting with people who aren’t aware about privacy invasions and the detrimental effect not caring about your privacy can have. https://neat.tube/videos/embed/vVECH95JDrM4pQf8vP612a --- ## Post 2 by @jordan — 2025-08-29T01:54:58Z --- ## Post 3 by @anon13976615 — 2025-08-29T06:20:20Z [@jordan](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/jordan) short and sweet, I like it! It should resonate well with the wider community 👍🏻 --- ## Post 4 by @PurpleDime — 2025-08-29T06:54:14Z Excellent video Jordan! Based on the title, is it fair to assume it was partly inspired by [Carissa Véliz’s work](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673341/privacy-is-power-by-carissa-veliz/)? --- ## Post 5 by @freddy — 2025-08-29T11:41:23Z Great video as ever! See also Carissa Véliz’s seminal article on the matter: > **[Privacy matters because it empowers us all | Aeon Essays](https://aeon.co/essays/privacy-matters-because-it-empowers-us-all)** > > Don’t just give away your privacy to the likes of Google and Facebook – protect it, or you disempower us all --- ## Post 6 by @ph00lt0 — 2025-08-29T15:35:04Z > “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say,” - Snowden > **[Nothing to hide argument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument)** > > The nothing to hide argument is a logical fallacy which states that individuals have no reason to fear or oppose surveillance programs unless they are afraid it will uncover their own illicit activities. An individual using this argument may claim that an average person should not worry about government surveillance, as they would have "nothing to hide". > An early instance of this argument was referenced by Henry James in his 1888 novel, The Reverberator: > If these people had done bad things they... --- ## Post 7 by @shorthand7608 — 2025-08-30T02:20:55Z While I agree with everything in this video. Its hard to believe that there are people that simply do not care about their privacy and prefer convenience. No matter how invasive and intrusive companies get day by day. --- ## Post 8 by @anon802255 — 2025-08-30T04:13:35Z What I see a lot of is not so much that people flat out do not care about privacy, it’s that convenience ends up trumping the private options, whatever they may be. I’m yet to meet someone who says they don’t care about privacy, it’s just that they prefer what they have or haven’t found a better solution for themselves. --- ## Post 9 by @shorthand7608 — 2025-08-30T11:21:16Z I’ve met people who don’t care, and I’ve also met people who are just ignorant of it all. Until they’re educated about it somehow they’re just blinded by all the noise. I personally think people don’t care until it directly affects them in their own way- and everyone I think has their threshold. How much is too much? --- ## Post 11 by @em — 2025-09-01T16:28:49Z Amazing video Jordan! :yellow_heart::sparkles: --- ## Post 12 by @shorthand7608 — 2025-09-23T22:29:40Z I’m getting the follow when trying to watch the video. The video plays just not getting any audio. > **Transcoding failed** > Your web browser may not be able to play it.