Privacy vs. Security
Since well before we eagerly leaped into the world of high technology, we gave very little thought to the possibility that someday we would find ourselves at a perilous fork in the road as a society, culture, and country.
Since well before we eagerly leaped into the world of high technology, we gave very little thought to the possibility that someday we would find ourselves at a perilous fork in the road as a society, culture, and country.
We learned that it was a really good day for gun rights, school choice, property rights preservation, and saying NO to things like carbon taxes and green energy schemes. Republicans were truly in the majority today, and we accomplished some very good things!
A handful of states have embraced or are testing the use of a digital driver’s license. A virtual passport in your smartphone that links your digital person to the real one. Advocates are selling it as a way to provide credentials everywhere you go, and why exactly would we need that?
Democrats want to spy on all your banking transactions, and when that story broke, a few things happened. First, almost everyone got the story wrong. Now it has been reported that Democrats are backing off. No. No, they are not.
About 50 years ago, someone handed law enforcement a permission slip. It is an exception to the Fourth Amendment called “community caretaking.” It is exercised to justify “seizing” or searching vehicles “in the interest of public safety.”
Democrats talk a lot about the right to privacy. New Hampshire’s Democrat Senators, Jeanne Shaheen, and Maggie Hassan have, though that is code for “abortions.” When it comes to your actual privacy, they’d rather government can spy on you (and not just the Feds.)
What is your response when you hear about law enforcement officials breaking the law to get someone they think is bad? The police aren’t the only ones who occasionally lose focus and decide to “get the bad guy” … no matter what it takes.
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