We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.
Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.
Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.
People have a right to privacy, but they also have a right to live. Fundamentally, we need cybersecurity and need to secure communications as well.
Foreigners like me have no privacy rights whatsoever. Yet we keep using U.S.-based services all the time, making us a legal target for gathering and storing our private information. Other countries do surveillance as well. But nobody has the global visibility that United States does.
I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.