The most common arguments against privacy and the use of good crypto are often called the “Four Horsemen of the infocaypse” Because the are not rational arguments but playing with the fear of people.

Accusation: privacy and crypto enable Terror. logical fallacy: surveillance can stop Terror Truth: all civil rights enable people to do things. freedom of speech enables you to lie. So should we abolish that?

Accusation: privacy and crypto enable child abuse logical fallacy: surveillance stops child abuse truth: police needs tools like Tor to find people that spread images of child abuse.

Accusation: privacy, and crypto enable crimes logical fallacy: surveillance stops crimes and helps to find criminals, if we just had enogh sorveillance there would be no crime

declaration of human rights constitions: of europe, America

please add links to material like studies that show that data-retention is useless, the cost of surveillance, examples of innocent beeing spyed on ect.

be prepared for dirty tricks of the dark side of the force

We commonly see the media and officials making statements like “the public does not care about privacy” or similar.