Describing how the founder responded to a question about Facebook storing data, Dopfner wrote: “Zuckerberg said: ‘I do not understand your question. Those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear.’
“Again and again I had to think about this sentence. It’s terrible. I know it is certainly not meant that way. This is a mindset that was fostered in totalitarian regimes not in liberal societies. Such a sentence could also be said by the head of the Stasi or other intelligence service or a dictatorship.”