Personal privacy is a closely held American value.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Privacy is tremendously important. I believe the American people, and all people, should be skeptical of government power, should ask hard questions: What is the authority? What is the oversight? That's the way it ought to be.
I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity.
The right to personal privacy is precious. Without it, we are all potential victims for a prying secret police.
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.
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.
Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.