Dichotomy: A division into two especially mutually exclusive r contradictory groups or entities.
Sentence: The debate between privacy versus security some claim to be a false dichotomy.
Erode: to diminish or destroy by degrees.
Sentence: New security tactics in the U.S. erode its own citizen’s privacy.
Apartheid: Racial segregation; specifically: a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non- European groups in the republic of South Africa.
Sentence: To this day apartheid is maintained in South Africa to minimize terrorism among other races.
Today’s innovative technology has helped all of us awhile also diminishing our utter privacy. We order things online, computers save history, credit cards are swiped, and our smartphones monitor our every move. After the 9/11 terrorist bombings the U.S. security became more solidified descending our privacy which now seems nonexistent. Privacy is vital as a human being and shouldn’t be restrained because as Americans we would be undermining our own constitution.
The simple idea of someone looking thru my bedroom or even notebook can give me disturbed feelings. Feelings are important and can generate drastic actions fueled by these emotions and the government knows that. Which is why they use the words such as terrorists, bombers, and ISIS to promote fear, terror, and anxiety upon its citizens. The fact that we now practically have no privacy is unjustifiable because the government security claims it’s for our wellbeing and safety. How can we be well and feel safe being watched 24 hours a day and 7 days a week? To the point where we even start thinking our own neighbors or people next to us in the bus can be terrorists. In the Huffington post article “Privacy vs. Security? Privacy.” Marc Rotenberg writes “..Benjamin Franklin warned long ago that such a strategy would fail. The correct balance is not a metaphysical tradeoff between security and