{"id":10457,"date":"2011-07-19T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T19:35:05","slug":"the-false-tradeoff-between-privacy-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/the-false-tradeoff-between-privacy-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University Law School professor Dan Solove, author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.law.gwu.edu\/facweb\/dsolove\/Nothing-to-Hide\/index.html\">Nothing to Hide: the False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security<\/a> <\/em>is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/technology-and-liberty\/qa-daniel-solove-how-bad-security-arguments-are-undermining-our-privacy\">interviewed by the ACLU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On his book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve all heard the argument that &#8220;people shouldn&#8217;t worry about government surveillance if they have nothing to hide.&#8221; Or the argument that &#8220;in times of crisis, we must trade privacy and liberty for greater security.&#8221; The book responds to these arguments, exposes their false premises, and corrects myths about how the law protects privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On what <em>should have been<\/em> asked post 9\/11:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you want the NSA to engage in surveillance in the war on terrorism without a warrant, probable cause, or any judicial oversight or do you prefer the NSA to engage in such surveillance with a warrant, probable cause, or some form of judicial oversight?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On free speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When government power chills speech, it doesn\u2019t just affect the speaker but all of society. We have less robust speech and fewer perspectives. A precedent is set that can chill speech by many others in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington University Law School professor Dan Solove, author of\u00a0Nothing to Hide: the False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security is interviewed by the ACLU. On his book: We&#8217;ve all heard the argument that &#8220;people shouldn&#8217;t worry about government surveillance if they have nothing to hide.&#8221; Or the argument that &#8220;in times of crisis, we must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10459,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/10459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}