The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

by Kevin D. Mitnick

Listening to my old friend, and his explanation on why privacy does not matter to him, I was saddened. I was saddened because I’ve heard these arguments before, many times. I hear them from people who think they have nothing to hide. I hear them from people who think only criminals need to protect themselves. I hear them from people who think only terrorists use encryption. I hear them from people who think we don’t need to protect our rights. But we do need to protect our rights. And privacy does not just affect our rights, it is a human right. In fact, privacy is recognized as a fundamental human right in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.