Rhetorical Analysis Of Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have Hide

In the society today, “privacy” does not seem to exist at all. We witness it every day on social networking sites, when you are using online transactions, etc. Daniel J. Solove “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide” argues that privacy not only affects the individuals that are hiding something that is wrong. At the beginning of the article, Daniel J. Solve dives right into dissecting his argument on how the government goes about retrieving and gathering the public personal information. Solove explains how this particular argument branches from an insufficient definition of the accurate meaning of privacy and all the principles that privacy possesses. Solove effectively convinces his audience that "nothing-to-hide" argument

Daniel J. Solove states that discussions about government collection of data and surveillance do not focus merely on problems accompanying with the processing and storage of the information that is being assembled. Instead, they focus solely on assembling and using personal data. He argues that this process of analysis and storing information creates a major power imbalance between the government and the people. The government is responsible for not only accumulating single egregious act but for the slow accretion of a collection of seemingly and meaningless minor information about us. In this respect, they then continue to merge the information that they collected and they begin to make assumptions about our lives based on the minimal information that they collected on us. Solove goes on and explain how the

He is able to accomplish this by explaining the inductive reasoning behind the argument that he made. He explains that the supporters of the nothing-to-hide argument do not precisely define privacy. He logically appeals to the audience and infers that the assumptions of the argument are false by analyzing how complex privacy is. He gives examples of the privacy invasions to support the claim that privacy “is a plurality of different things that do not share any one element but nevertheless bear a resemblance to one another”, which are blackmail and inappropriate use of personal data. These examples enable the audience to understand fully the nature of defining privacy. Solove states “although society is more likely to respond to a major oil spill, gradual pollution by a multitude of actors often creates worse problems”, which means that he has shown that the invasion that the government do to our privacy creates numerous amount of problems; we cannot let this continue since it will definitely lead to long lasting