COMM ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-6: Mission Creep, Passport Records, Luddite
21 Nov 2016
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Please de ne the all or nothing fallacy. Security and liberty as a zero-sum tradeoff: any increase in security demands a de- Awed argument: no established correlation (locking cockpit doors on airplanes does not sacri ce privacy) Fourth amendment: the government can search your home as long as it justi es why. Protection of privacy might demand the imposition of oversight and regulation but need not entail scrapping and entire security measure. Costs of protecting privacy are falsely in ated. Government should be regulated much less when it pursues matters of security than when it investigates ordinary crime (distinction between which is which might be fuzzy) National security often abused as a justi cation for violating the civil liberties of citizens. State secrets privilege : exclude evidence in a case if it will reveal a classi ed se- cret (a neutron bomb , effectively wiping it out)
