Tag: privacy snowden

  • Nothing to Hide? Or Afraid of a ‘Metadata Sweep’

    This post first appeared on the Port Washington Patch. In a recent discussion of the Edward Snowden Affair with family members,  two basic attitudes toward the government’s selective spying on U.S. citizens emerged: The Innocence Argument “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t care what the federal government wants to know about me.” The Privacy Argument “The…