Privacy and Security: Balancing Principles and Responsibilities. (Insider).

Security Distributing & Marketing, November, 2001 by O'Connell, Tim

At best the conflict between privacy and security is a precarious balancing act weighted on one side by the principles of democracy and on the other by the responsibilities of property protection and life safety.

Privacy advocates such as Privacy International, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and grassroots organizations nationwide can tactically push the debate into courtrooms using the Fourth Amendment -- which prohibits unlawful search and seizure -- as leverage against CCTV, biometrics and other electronic security technologies.

The fear is not so much that the critics and courts will halt police use of video surveillance in public places but that the objections will escalate into...

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