
Peggy Noonan: What We Lose if We Give Up Privacy
"He told the students that if citizens don't have basic privacies—firm protections against the search and seizure of your private communications, for instance—they will be left feeling 'threatened.' This will make citizens increasingly concerned 'about what they say, and they do, and they think.' It will have the effect of constricting freedom of expression." [rdbrewer]