“Privacy is fundamentally incompatible with safety—we have to choose”
Agree
- Crime prevention requires surveillance and data collection
- Terrorism proves security needs information access
- Private spaces enable abuse and violence
- Emergency response depends on tracking and monitoring
Disagree
- Surveillance states create more danger than safety
- History shows power always abuses total information
- Security existed before mass digital surveillance
- Privacy protects dissent which protects democracy itself
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