In the age of social media and social networks
privacy has become an issue of intense debate.
Privacy means an individual has the right to be
secure from unauthorized disclosure of information
about oneself.
Now if a state has "state secrets", is this
fundamentally different from privacy issues for
the individual (only for the state)? Should
a state in a democracy have any real secrets
at all? And if the state has the right to prevent
invasion of privacy, shouldn't the individual
have the same right, too?
It is clearly evil what Wikileaks has done recently,
they went to far this time. But too much censorship
and secrecy is not a good idea, either (as the
"top secret america" investigation from the
Washington Post showed). What do you think?
-J.
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