You may not need protection , but other people do . A young prosecutor investigating a corrupt DA , mayor , police chief , governor , or other government agent would be risking his l i f e n i s m a n c a s e m u r d e r a r g e n t i n a l a wyerhomicideinvestigation doing an investigation that can be monitored by the person he ' s investigating . Regulators who ' s job it is to assess large fines to corporations for not adhering to safetyenvironmental regulations would have to worry that a corrupt official above him will use his access to black mail that regulator by exposing his embarrassing fetish to everybody if he refuses to overlook the actions of one company , or unfairly punish another . Any political movement that starts to gain traction that the establishment disagrees with could be squashed by threatening its leaders with exposure of all their personal browsing history , emails , finances , footage from their webcam on their laptop , etc . Then there ' s something called the chilling effect . Where good people who might want to do those jobs will opt not to because they fear their fetish will be exposed , or pictures surreptitiously taken from their personal webcam will end up in public , or emailed directly to their spousebossfamilyetc . So now good people who want to be prosecutors and root out corruption will decide it ' s just easier and less risky to do something else with their lives instead . While you may personally not do any of those things , don ' t you want the people who do to be able to do their job ?