Mrs. tooone
3rd hour
National security is more important than personal privacy?
What is more important, national security, or personal privacy. Many people debate about this topic. National security is important for security at airports, borders and to protect the citizens of the nation. Privacy is important so we can do things in private and know we are not being spied on by the government.
National security is important because it keeps airports,borders, and the public safer. Security helps keep terrorists,illegal immigration and drug trafficking under control. According to debatewise.org “The most important job of government is to “secure the general welfare” of its citizens.” Many people agree because it keeps them safe and other people safe. according to pewresearch.org quote “Pew Research Center surveys since the 9/11 terrorist attacks have generally shown that in the periods when high-profile cases related to privacy vs. security first arise, majorities of adults …show more content…
as well according to news18.com "I believe that individual privacy is more important than the security of each country, but obviously governments are accustomed to think differently and we respect the job they do.” Privacy protects people from bank fraud,scams and private phone calls and texts. But some government and companies break this law, according to globalresearch.ca “Whistleblowers revealed years ago that the NSA was vacuuming up virtually all Internet communications. The Washington Post and Guardian report today that the NSA is tapping directly into the central servers of 9 leading U.S. Internet companies – including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple, and soon Dropbox – and extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movement and contacts over