Why Your Privacy is Important
Just weeks after USA Today reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting the phone call records of millions of Americans -- under the guise of anti-terrorism protection -- Wired News has come out with an extremely important, and timely, piece: Why your privacy is incredibly valuable.
Privacy is not about hiding a wrong, it's an inherent human right. But this "right" seems to be slipping away, as even phone companies like AT&T may be going along with illegal government surveillance. Some key points to remember when it comes to your privacy:
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause.Wired News May 18, 2006