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We have to trade a little privacy for security.
Do Americans support that trade-off of privacy for security?
People waver on whether to trade privacy for convenience, but they're pretty untroubled about trading privacy for security.
Luxembourg bankers say the bulk of their customers have nothing to hide but still value their privacy for security and other legitimate reasons.
11 era have been increasingly persuaded to trade "privacy" for "security," with technology including video surveillance cameras, wiretapping and all kinds of digital data mining.
If secret information yields valuable intelligence that can be used to protect Americans, the reasoning goes, then it is worth sacrificing privacy for security.
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But because genuinely dangerous people will often be pre-empted or more swiftly caught, the privacy-for-security swap will seem like a reasonable trade-off to many Americans — especially when there is no obvious alternative short of disconnecting from the Internet entirely.
All of the people I interviewed are ready to give up some privacy for security-if we can prove that they really are more secure.
We asked Guardian readers whether they felt happy to trade off online privacy for online security.
President Obama, trying to play down the uproar, said Prism targets only foreign nationals and that it was worth giving up a little privacy for more security.
People tolerate incursions into privacy for greater security or even convenience: health care, transportation, public safety, or any number of web utilities we use on a daily basis.
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