Ms Moffat's Class

I find that untrue, if the terrorists are coming into a country, how are they supposed to know without checking your bag or patting you down. One example was the terrorist attack on the German International airport. After the attacker had killed two people and wounded two others, he was arrested. After the attack the German's tightened security. This shows that the way they dealed with trying to prevent another attack was by giving everyone pat downs and checking everyone's bags around three times. This means that they gave everyone less privacy, increasing security.

But don't we give up our email for many things, even on this site it asks for our email. Not to mention that most people give up their personal information everyday. There are so many instances where we give up our information and it amounts to no thing. There are people that should not have our information, but why would it be so bad to have our texts looked at if key words are popping up. If you don't know how the key words work, here's how. If words like refugees, drugs, guns, etc keep showing up they will most likely start watching your texts. And while this may seem like a bad idea, it would only increase the worlds security.

“I might be happy to give my date of birth when I check in my account over the phone to the operator because this facilitates the security practices on my bank account, so people who don’t know my bank account cannot access that information. I’m giving away a little bit of my privacy there for the sake of security, and this is fine.” said Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo, Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. This is true, everytime that we give our date of birth, or name and email, we give up privacy in order to keep security.

While privacy is important, what is the point if our security is gone. The director of the National Security Administration today told Congress that more than 50 potential terrorist attacks have been thwarted by two controversial programs tracking more than a billion phone calls and vast swaths of Internet data each day. This is important because, while everyone enjoys privacy it helps to give up a little. Without these tracking programs more people could have lost their lives in terrorist attacks. Are peoples lives worth less than privacy?

Giving up our privacy helps increase national security. Our privacy does us no good if our security is gone.