Privacy vs. Security
posted by:Rafal Morek // 05:14 PM // July 27, 2005 // Surveillance and social sorting
Last week a CBC journalist was stopped by a security guard while on her way to buy a tea at Starbucks on the ground floor of an office building in Ottawa. She was asked to submit to a random bag search. When she refused, the guard let her carry on, but it sparked an interest on her part in increasing intrusions into personal privacy, allegedly over concerns about national security. The CBC interviewed Daphne Gilbert this morning on the incident. If you want to listen to the interview (about nine minutes), you can find it under CBC Ottawa Morning Top Story (for Wednesday). It will stay on the site until Tuesday, August 2nd. Daphne made the point that people should be concerned about security searches like this one, and that we as a society should be wary of our decreasing expectations in privacy.
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