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2007-11-11

Government Priority on Privacy: Definition Control

When citizen rights and government power come into conflict, how should we respond? Redefine citizen rights to accommodate government power:

A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. [Pamela Hess, AP, "Definition Changing for People's Privacy," Yahoo News, 2007.11.11]


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