What is it you want to see happen with the NSA? [View all]
Let's just put it out there. What is your ideal balance of security and personal freedom?
While we are at it, let's also discuss how much we trust the government to do the right thing. I asked before and got no answer. Why do we assume a nefarious plot in the NSA thing (or potential for one) and at the same time we want things like single-payer health care would expose as much, if not more personal data to the government? If the government can target you by who you called, couldn't they also target you by leaking something private in your medical history?
From my point of view, I want a government worthy of my trust. They already have so much info at their disposal it makes me nervous, but at some point, I have to say "I trust them to do what is correct with that information or we might as well just be done with the notion and become an everyone for themselves society".
It's a tough question. What data do you trust the government with to do the job we expect it to do? Some folks are looking for easy answers and I don't think there are going to be any.
What is the proper balance? Should they look at banking transactions to catch tax cheats and money laundering? Should they look at health data to see if their is a cluster of illness that may indicate a public health concern? What about background checks for guns that list mental illnesses?
It seems to me pretty much anything can have a slippery slope argument applied to it.
So what do we do?
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