[growupkids]

I think you're missing the point, and would mind if we all went through your financial, medical and personal records. These records are made available to OPM under what are supposed to be strict privacy controls, because it's very very personal information. Everything from divorces, psychological counseling, drug history, you name it. You open up every secret in your life to scrutiny to demonstrate that despite all that you can be trusted. None of that is anyone's business, and it supposed to be protected and only available to a small number of people for a period of time to determine if you can be trusted.

Everyone has things in their lives they'd rather not have made public because it's nobodies business, and this compromise just betrayed the trust all those people put in the US government.

[scintill76]

Grandparent post may have been parodying the "nothing to hide = nothing to fear" argument that's used to support ubiquitous surveillance etc.