It seems we live in two different worlds!

Last Sunday when I heard William Hague say: “Those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear.” I was taken aback a little. One because as a Conservative peoples’ liberty and privacy is a serious and precious matter not to be taken lightly, and two it sounded and felt intrusively wrong and uncomfortably totalitarian.

Whereas Hague’s words did not fill me with confidence and to some extend chilled me, they had little effect on those much younger than myself. And that got me thinking.

Evolution is more than developing technology and the way we do things and conduct our affairs, it is also advancing the way we see, approach matters and deal with them.

The way I reacted to the phases was not shared by my kids and those in their age group, young people in their late teens and twenties.

The young people of today, who live their life in the open for all to see at the flick of a button, have a totally different attitude to me about privacy. While I was appalled at the idea of someone snooping through my private electronic communications, they were very relaxed. Their attitude was “We have nothing to hide so snoop away.”

Then my question is. Do people like myself need to evolve and change our old ways. Need to understand the cost of our safety and security is to relinquishing certain old values of liberty and privacy, or do young people lack the experience and don’t know what they are letting themselves into?

What say you?