Reply in FIVE words. Your best friend tells you: “No, seriously. I’ve got nothing to hide.”

Exactly. “Then don’t lock your door!” “Picture: a crazy obsessive ex…”

“Public (willing to share; open) <- -> Private (personal; protected; secret)” and “Showing good things you do <- -> Hiding bad things you do” are different vectors, apples and oranges. Clearly, there are 1) publicly done good things, 2) publicly done bad things, 3) privately done good things, and 4) privately done bad things — showing these two dimensions are independent. Or open-source good tools, and open-source malware (e.g. with backdoor) too.

The argument that one should be able to reveal everything if not doing anything wrong, or that if it’s not hidden it’s good and if it’s hidden it must be something bad, is unrealistic, illogical, misleading, confusing, and simply silly.

Yeah, though not necessarily you’ll need to protect (hide) everything, a person is obviously the owner of their personal info: they’re free to decide what info they share or not, with whom…

Basically you have no reason to “hide“ when or how many times you go to a bathroom; nevertheless you don’t need to publicly share such info, unless you do want to. Going to a bathroom is not illegal; not sharing such info is, not because you want to hide bad things, but simply because the info is irrelevant and you don’t need to share it. “You don’t need to hide anything if you’re not doing anything bad” is such a warped logic, a crazy rhetoric. Not sharing private info, and hiding bad things, are two different things!