"President Obama’s advisory committee on the N.S.A.’s practices has given him a report, released by the White House on Wednesday, that is three hundred pages long and includes forty recommendations.
The thirty-page executive summary
might be further condensed to a few sentences: Don’t do things just
because you can. Tell people what the rules are. Remember that
“security” doesn’t just mean chasing terrorists—it “refers to a quite
different and equally fundamental value,” spelled out in the Fourth
Amendment: “The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Stop
shutting down debate by muttering about a “balance” that needs to be
struck between security and freedom—they are not on opposite sides of
the scale. Start thinking about privacy." [New Yorker]
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