Why should I care about digital rights when I have nothing to hide?

This question contains its own answer, if you listen closely. 'Nothing to hide' assumes hiding is the only reason to want privacy—but that's like saying you need curtains only if you're doing something illegal. You have a door on your bathroom not because you're committing crimes there. Digital rights aren't about hiding; they're about autonomy. Laozi taught that the unexamined life isn't worth living. An unexamined digital life—where algorithms know you better than you know yourself, where your attention is harvested without consent, where your data shapes decisions about you—that's a life being lived through you, not by you. The real risk isn't that you'll be 'caught.' It's subtler: that your choices will be invisibly shaped by what platforms show you. That your children will grow up thinking surveillance is normal. That power concentrates in the hands of those who understand you but remain opaque to you. Even if you trust today's companies, do you trust every future government? Every future employer? The examined life requires the examined digital life. Start here: ask yourself—would you be comfortable with every algorithm reading your search history aloud in a room full of strangers? If not, why? That discomfort is your answer.