Nothing to hide
Our medical records
Our poems, our drawings
Our holiday requests
Our first naughty chats online
Our favourite recipes
Our bank listings
Our appointments, our schedule
Our overdrafts
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
If you have nothing to hide,
why not let someone film your bedroom and bathroom?
All could be published on the internet...
If you have nothing to hide,
let someone use your logins and password to your facebook and your google accounts,
publish them to let everyone rummage through all your stuff.
Our to-do lists
Our tender sms
Our angry letters
And our list of contacts
Our favorite places
Our swimming pool hours
Our sworn arch enemies
The girl next door's name
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
To tell yourself - oh, whatever, I have nothing to feel guilty about
therefore I have nothing to hide
is totally disconnected from reality
in which generalised surveillance by the NSA
works on the principle of three degrees of separation.
If you've been in contact with someone, who has been in contact with someone,
who has a -perhaps long-lost- brother,
a guy with a beard who is suspected of terrorist activities,
then, potentially,
all your email correspondence, your online presence, your phone calls, sms,
all that, is spied upon by the NSA.
Our membership cards
Our x-rays, our MRIs
Photos of our parents
Our monthly income statement
Our weight in chocolate
Our favourite drugs
Videos of our cat
And our political beliefs
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
Those things we want to keep to ourselves,
that is our intimacy
it's where we go play with theories,
where we experiment,
try thoughts and things out,
make mistakes, say yes and then... no.
It's where that, which some call creativity, happens.
And that is what's threatened when one feels under surveillance.
When we're under surveillance.
Those unsent message drafts
Our doctor's address
Our detailed travel logs
Our electricity meter reading
Our sexual preferences
When we think about it
Aren't all as personal
as one would like to think
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
It's a fact that we all have something to hide.
From our partner, from our colleagues,
from our friends and acquaintances, our employer.
We all have something
that we want to keep out of sight.
It's obvious that our behaviour changes
when we feel spied upon, under surveillance,
when we cannot benefit from anonymity
that is part of our privacy,
just as it is part of our freedom of expression.
Our morning read
Our clicks and our nightmares
Our newspaper sources
How early we get up
Our job interviews
The amount of tax we pay
What we mean by "the Left"
and the size of our desk
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
No-, no-, nothing to feel guilty about,
No-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
If you believe you have nothing to hide,
if you don't give a damn,
and if you want to give it all to google and facebook,
you don't realise that
you're also handing over part of your correspondents',
your friends', your family's data
to Google and Facebook.
Political representation must impose strict protections
of privacy and personal data.
Also, intelligence and surveillance activities
have to be brought under democractic control
Except, of course, our privacy
We have no-, no-, no-, nothing to hide
Except, of course, our dirty little secrets
We have no-, no-, no-, nothing to hide!