Do you think people exchanged privacy for a false sense of security?

Answer 1

There has never been, nor will there ever be %100 security.
To f up laws is destructive and a waste of time.
I could be killed by a meteor as I sit here now. Millions of those pelt Earth per day, but fortunately, most burn up in the atmosphere.

Answer 2

We may have exchanged privacy for an increased sense of security, but these days there is a good chance that sense of improved security may not be a false one. While we are facing some of the threats of today I think we have to be grown up about our privacy, and not like errant teenagers who don't want our parents finding some criminal thing under our mattresses.

Technology has made the world closer in good and bad ways. We have had to rethink privacy. With marketing companies and other data miners making a business out of private information, and with the fact that we all know if we talk on wireless phones, talk on cordless house phones or put anything online there isn't necessarily any expectation of privacy most of the time; we can then realize that if our homes and U.S. Mail continue to remain private the our privacy remains ALMOST the same as it did 100 years ago in this country before there were cordless phones, cell phones, web cams and the Internet. (Really, if we choose to use cell phones or cordless phones we need to realize that it could be pretty much the same as yelling out our windows.)

Because we have more records out there in this technological age we do have to redefine privacy and make efforts not to compromise it in view of the fact that is has now become an issue that it never was before. Yes, its unfortunate that this task of redefining is something we have to face. Still, though, we have to be grown up about the realities of the age in which we live and maybe accept some unpleasant or unpopular decisions that nobody would have had to accept years ago. I'm not in favor of blindly accepting being deprived of rights, but we shouldn't get stuck in trying to hang onto an outdated definintion of expectation of privacy to the point where we let some Trojan Horse come rolling on in.

We will never be 100% secure and safe in this world as individuals, its true; but when it comes to preventing something like September 11, which wasn't just about losing 3000 lives and destroying however many families but was also about the general security and economy and wellbeing of a nation; it goes beyond the simple thing that a meteor could hit our house tomorrow (so we never have guarantees about security).

It may not be such a horrible thing to accept a certain degree of compromise with regard to privacy right now, and the sense of increased security may not be a false one; but, at the same time, we do have clearly define all infractions on our privacy and make sure it is well established that while we may realize we have to accept it we do not see it as an ok thing.

Answer 3

YES!

Answer 4

no no no no no