I would like one Euro for every time I have heard "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry from scrutiny!"
Those uttering such phrases are but one step away from saying "why do you need to be private if you have nothing to hide?" and its just a lame excuse for bull-dozering their way through your life.
I might have nothing to hide, but I still do not welcome the scrutineer finding out how many times a day I flatulate or pick my nose.
A democracy has the right to protect itself, even from its own citizens where those citizens might endanger the greater good. The word 'might' implies a reasonable suspicion, but who determins that degree of reasonable suspicion? In a perfect democracy that would be the role of a judge, but who lives in a perfect democracy?
So, accepting that there is no ideal answer to 'is individual scrutiny by civil authorities an invasion of privacy?' how is an individual supposed to react to scrutiny?
Answeres on a postcard...
You may not even be aware of being observed.
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