How much are safety and security worth? Are they worth the possibility of losing the very ideals and freedoms upon which the United States of America was established? The terrorist attacks of September 11 th destroyed America's belief that we, as a country, are invincible. Consequently, many methods are being developed to improve national security, most of which involve biometrics, which are human characteristics.However, are some methods going too far? Biometric National Identity Cards, which are being considered by countries all over the globe, including the United States, have generated a new widespread fear: the loss of privacy and individualism. Books, such as George Orwell's 1984 , and movies, such as Gattaca and Minority Report , predict the future as a time when biometric security measures are everywhere, and privacy is nonexistent. In each of the potential futures created in these fictional works, the government is everywhere: in homes, in the workplace, and even in the family car. Privacy has ceased to exist.Privacy is considered a fundamental right of the U.S. citizen. Although not clearly defined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights, privacy has long been considered an important aspect of freedom ( Bill of Rights , 1994).
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Privacy made public: will national security be the end of individualism?
Fujawa, Jennifer M.
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