In the Maltese Falcon the district attorney tells Sam Spade, “If you have nothing to hide, why are you concerned?”, and Sam answers back, “Everyone has something to hide.”
“If I'm not doing anything wrong, then you have no cause to watch me.”
“Because the government gets to define what's wrong, and they keep changing the definition.”
“Because you might do something wrong with my information.”
“Mind if I make a video of you fucking your wife then?”
“yeah…, isn't that what Stalin used to say?”
“I don't stay up at night hatching terrorist plots, but I still close the blinds and lock my doors.”
“Just because you're [not] paranoid doesn't mean they're not [not] out to get you.”
“Because we all know no one in government with access to information about us could ever possibly make a mistake or do anything wrong themselves.”