Privacy: Who Needs it

We have no idea when an Authoritarian leader will appear. Hitler/Mussolini were both unknown decades prior. This is why privacy is so vital to protect today. "Our privacy is our power. Our data in others hands, their power over us." Edward Snowden tries to convince me to worry more about privacy. "They're trying to shape your behavior!" he warns. I rudely say: "Americans by and large don't care, and I mostly don't care. I figure that teenage boy across the street could be picking up the stuff I send. The cork's out of the bottle. What difference does it make?" Snowden has good answers. ---- Don't miss the weekly video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 ---- Google's former CEO once said, creepily: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Snowden points out that we will feel pressured to "constrain our intellectual curiosity, and even frankly, our weirdnesses ... bec