The NSA collects data on billions of phone calls and internet
communications per day. Are these surveillance programs legal? Do they
keep us safe? If not for the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, most
Americans would be unaware of the vast amounts of information their
government is secretly collecting, all in the name of national security.
But whether you believe leakers are heroes or traitors, an important
public conversation has finally begun, and we should ask ourselves: What
tradeoffs are we willing to make between security and privacy?
As
Benjamin Franklin might have asked, "Are we giving up essential liberty
to purchase temporary safety, and thus deserving of neither?"
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