Privacy Over Security: A Fair Trade?

Now, let's talk about this. I don't know but my opinion might be different form others, but then...we meuve.

The thing is, personally I do not agree and will not agree to give up my privacy for the purpose of security. It does looks simple on the surface and might have agreed to it, but after taking my time to think it through, I cant. The cost is just too heavy, or am I the one overthinking it. Just imagine when all you do is being recorded, seen, watched and monitored. Is that in itself not insecurity. Won't you feel insecure knowing that everything you do is been monitored. It will be as if you're being caged and cannot be free to do what you want anymore.

Personally, I feel if I lose control over my own life/privacy, then I've lost my protection too, because privacy itself is security. I feel secured when I know I'm the only one who sees myself and what I do, I feel secured when I know others can only know what I share or what I want them to know. How will I now start to walk, eat, bath, work, call, message, text, chat and all with the consciousness that I'm being monitored. I won't be able to live my life the way I would want or love too, I will start living my life carefully like someone who's in bondage.

Imagine the various conversations we have today about the state of the country and all of that, the various discussions about our leaders, the insecurity, unemployment and all that we discuss privately with our friends or at work now being used against us later, maybe to punish or deny us of some things. What I'm saying is, if such a thing should start happening, then we've become a trapped captive. I don't see that as security, I see it as bondage, as control and I can't agree to it even if it promises security, because there's no security in using my thought, privacy and such against me later.

Let's take a woman who's going through crisis in her home for instance, she's experiencing things that she really need to speak up about, but in there she will b scared too, because her conversation will be monitored. Couples who are supposed to misunderstand each other and settle things will now keep holding it in because they are bring watched. And you want to tell me that's not insecurity too, when you cannot express yourself freely, then you're already suffering from insecurity, and a society like that is not safe, everybody starts to live a careful and fake life just so to portray what's good to whoever is watching.

Insecurity is dealing with us at the moment, as a nation. But it won't be good to add another to it, because this would even affect us the more. Security shouldn't take away our dignity, security shouldn't feel like a cage. If the government should have access to such a thing as the privacy if it's citizens, the citizens won't feel secured and they will feel oppressed as well. Because in the long run, that which was created for security/protection can easily and also be used to oppress and control the same citizens later....or when power gets to the wrong hands.

Even within families and friends, within our own little spaces, there are times we all our privacy, there are times we want to be left alone, there are times we want to do things....just us. But if that is taken away and we are being monitored, then no one is truly living again, we all will only start pretending to be who we are not and feign emotions, love, happiness and all.

So, in as much as we need and want to be secured, we also need to feel free to think, speak, act, be vulnerable and do things without the fear of being watched.

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