Anyway, I’ve got nothing to hide… How many times have you said that while mechanically accepting a website’s cookies?
Yesterday morning, I watched my daughter check her phone. A simple, harmless gesture. And yet, in a few seconds, she had revealed her current mood, her sleep habits, her location, and even her plans for the evening.
Without knowing it, she was feeding her “invisible digital portrait”: a silhouette made of thousands of micro-traces that we scatter every day.
The problem? This portrait no longer belongs to you. It circulates, gets sold, grows richer. It can predict your desires before you even feel them. And in the wrong hands, it becomes a formidable weapon.
The real question is not “What are you hiding?” But “Why should you give up your privacy?”
In a world where forgetting becomes impossible, where every click sketches your future, protecting your data is no longer an individual luxury: it is the very condition of your freedom.
Find the full transcript of this episode, along with all the sources and plenty more, at: I have nothing to hide anyway…
