Archive for May 25th, 2006

The Eternal Value of Privacy

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Bruce Schneier is on the money in his recent Wired article “The Eternal Value of Privacy”
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises [...]