What We Lose if We Give Up Privacy - WSJ.com

Here's an interesting article.
I'm won't try to explain it other than to say it's worthwhile to read...

In the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan recently wrote about the implications of losing our privacy:

"We talk about this now because of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency revelations, and new fears that we are operating, all of us, within what has become or is becoming a massive surveillance state. They log your calls here, they can listen in, they can read your emails. They keep the data in mammoth machines that contain a huge collection of information about you and yours. This of course is in pursuit of a laudable goal, security in the age of terror. Is it excessive? It certainly appears to be. Does that matter? Yes. Among other reasons: The end of the expectation that citizens' communications are and will remain private will probably change us as a people, and a country."