What Is More Important: Our Privacy or National Security?

https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/what-is-more-important-our-privacy-or-national-security/comment-page-17/?_r=0

People are so concerned that their privacy is being violated that they don't consider the fact that sometimes that is what is needed to happen in order to protect the entire American public. This article discusses the government's motives behind the decreased privacy of every citizen, regarding the surveillance of each person's phone records, texts, and even search inputs on the Internet.