First thought: who the hell would be interested to read thousands of lines of discussions like how to name a field in REST response or notifications of someone making a build xD
If you think "I have nothing to hide" you're lacking in imagination.
The sexualized commentary about employee V's nice boobs.
The CEO arguing that employee M be kept because he's got leverage and we should let employee Z go instead.
That discussion we had about the time a hacker got ahold of 4000 customer records but we paid them off to delete the records.
I dunno, pretty much the stuff that can break a company into nothingness.
(FYI those are not scenarios where I work)
Yes, 99.9% of what you do or say in your daily life is likely of no consequence. But every now and then you may do or say something that could be used against you, and someone who has many years worth of data collected on you can probably find quite a few such bits of info.
Among all of your internet "transactions" probably less than 0.1% are with your bank, for instance (sending your credentials, etc). You want end-to-end encryption and good security to protect that 0.1% of your data, not for the other crap.
People rant about coworkers and managers, complain about their spouses, joke about doing something illegal/stupid, compare themselves (favorably or not!) against a competitor, and share the occasional off color story/picture with a friend.
Should those things happen on corp systems/network? Most of them, no. Do they? Absolutely.
When we do those things, we don't think about it because we all have the immediate context, feelings, and stress of the situation in addition to knowing the other person involved.
If an opposing attorney or law enforcement reads it years later without the context and knowing the people, they can't interpret it the same way.
No. Privacy is not about your right to hide. It is about another's access to info about you, i.e. consent.
"If you've got nothing to hide" is pure misdirection. It doesn't matter one bit why I won't allow you access to personal info.
I do not owe you an explanation - if you want my data, you owe me one.
Just because you don't think you have anything interesting doesn't mean a competitor isn't going to subpoena it years later.
Edit: That was before I read the article. He rants, with apparent sincerity, about the politically correct losers who thought that having an official, internal anything-goes-flamefest vent forum was a bad idea; describes how he went to great lengths to preserve it; finds out exactly why it really was a bad idea (it got subpoenaed so Microsoft could rake it for dirt); and then rants about that. At no point does he show any awareness of the irony.
What a guy.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/what-hulk-hogan-taugh...
https://splinternews.com/the-gawker-hulk-hogan-trial-and-the...
Lots of people believed what you did, but you only need to have said one thing.
grep -i "new iphone" apple_dump.txt