“Because a right is not particularly valuable to you at a particular time because you are not threatening, you assume it’s not valuable to anyone.  But you have not idea how laws or social norms are likely to change in the future.  You could find yourself in trouble regardless of whether you’d done anything “wrong” or not.
“Saying I don’t care about the right to privacy becasue I have nothing to hide is no different from saying I don’t care about freedom fo speech because I have nothing to say, or I don’t care about the freedom of the press because I have nothing to write.
“We will have stopped being citizens and reduced ourselves to subjects.”
Edward Snowden, Amnesty Q&A 2015