A password is there to enforce secracy, if this is not needed because of the good old reason, " well if you have nothing to hide tell em your password" if everybody had nothing to hide then what would be the need for passwords, and "not just the guy in the BBC article" everyone has the right to stroe information, just becuase some one says well tell me if you have nothing to hide, that does not mean yo9u give it to them, as it is there, your data, stored behind your password for a secracy reason.
Maybe this guy is a secret gay or something of the sort, and has a stash full of DVD's. Now before people say, what a stupid reason, something like that could well be true, and what ever the reason is, he doesn't want to give it