What Is More Important: Our Privacy or National Security?

How does this happen?

By giving up personal privacy, people allow the government into their lives in ways that should not be happening (ie: government gets access to your medical information, sees you have guns in your house, declares you a terrorist and puts you on a 'no-fly' and threat list.). Anytime the government gets involved with something, the reach ALWAYS goes way beyond what is envisioned or expected (re: SSA, Welfare, IRS, Dept of (un)Education, etc). The government then creates new laws to restrict the activities it sees as "bad" or "undesirable". At this point, you have created a totalitarian regime where there is no privacy and the government is free to do as it pleases with no security for its citizens.

Hopefully, the illustration I've painted here is an extreme case scenario but it would be very easy for over-zealous politicians to create just such an environment.

Many new laws are just Control of more people, and control of the guns. neither is legal but is done daily. Years ago it was a government run by the people today it starting to be a people run by the government not even a legal government. That is bad news for everyone. It will be like the new Biden digital money ,no value, no control so gov can take your money without your consent any time they want.

That's an interesting viewpoint. However, others might argue the opposite because you never know who the terrorist are. How do you feel about this?

SSG Shavonde Chase - The fear of terrorists is overblown in this country and I do not think we should sacrifice privacy due to paranoia. It is very, very expensive to mount a terrorist operation in the United States from overseas and beyond the financial means of most terrorist groups. So in a way the Oceans still protect us, we do need to worry about lone wolf people but I think what has really saved us from another 9-11 type terrorist attack has been lack of funds on the part of terrorist groups that want to execute it as well as awareness on this side of the Atlantic that there are terrorists that want to inflict mass casualties.

Our terrorist problem has increased many times in the last three years all because we have no national security any more. Not since Obama was in office and his staff and his secretary of state Hilary Clinton another Muslin with a full Islam office staff in control of everything with high Islam connections. lookup how many Obama put into federal office without the peoples knowledge. Include his last statement as he walked out ( I have to get a office here in Washington that I hear is two blocks away so I can control the government.

no, I'd say you're a realist, the fact of life is that our expectation of privacy used to end when we walked out our door but anymore not so much, the net and especially social media has brought a whole new level of scrutiny but as long as we are aware of it then hopefully we will act accordingly, the group Anonymous discovered earlier this year that certain terror cells were using the chat feature in game systems such as PlayStation, this because it leaves no traces of the conversation to trace, they have long been embedding comms in pictures because without the encrypt/decrypt code it just looks like a photo, so our experts have to remain vigilant to keep us safe

CWO3 (Join to see) - That's called steganography, Chief. Apologies if you knew.

I do you agree with you. How can we minimize the threat to our privacy?