ESSAY
"Security vs. Privacy and Freedom"

Categories

Peter VanBuskirk

March 11, 2003

National

Politics

Law

Economics/Business

Education

Privacy

Security

University

Social determinism

Technological fix

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"Is it a waste of time to evaluate the “costs” of lost privacy and freedom due to tighter domestic security?  Are civil rights groups like the ACLU forcing the government to waste resources by getting too caught up in bureaucratic debates?...
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But if civil liberty groups do not stand up for those too caught up in life to stand up for themselves, government agencies writing security policy will not be subjected to appropriate checks and balances.  This will cause privacy and freedom in the United States to suffer."

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