Security is more important than Privacy.
I would say that if you don't see how the two are inextricably linked, then you missed what happens when hackers steal private information (Target, et al) and destroy victim's security.
"Give me liberty or give me death!" would now read, "Give me protection from the minuscule threat of a Terror Cell and here is my pin, my passwords, my emails, my location 24/7, pics of my wife...my dog...my kids, here's every phone conversation I ever had, my medical history, my eating habits, my exercise habits, here is my friend's and family's linked meta data reamed through a processor to create psych profiles so the government can go minority report and prevent any loose cannons, here's my life captured in digital form so my real body is protected from things that rarely happen ever, here is my voluntary cooperation in the greatest control apparatus ever devised, here is where information still means power and I just gave both away so I don't get a lottery's chance of being blown up by a stranger."
Everything comes back to the fight or flight instinct and
over-socialization industrialization docilification has made most men a herd of skitish sheep "bahing" for their
Overlord
Shepherd to protect them from the digitally recorded "howl' playing on CNN from the time they wake-up to the time they lay down in a bed of Ambian prescribed sleep.
