Choosing The Balance Between Liberty And Security

Since ancient societies, the balance between liberty and security has always been a difficult problem to face because choosing one implies sacrificing a certain amount of the other one. When choosing security over liberty, people are usually faced with a sense of censorship and paranoia thinking that they are observed everywhere. However, by putting liberty first people are more likely to feel inclined to anarchism and licentiousness creating disorder in the society. This is way they need to choose one and try to fix it inconveniences.

Under the guise of national security, personal communication through Internet and cellular conversations are becoming government property; proof of this is the amount of intercepted information data. People

When something is uploaded to the internet, it will never disappear; it will always be there this is why a way to protect people’s content is needed. However, information is always filtered this is why practically all speakers agreed upon the lack of mechanisms to ensure the protection of privacy and the privacy of Internet users. As a counter to all that most users try to use secure websites like google or yahoo. However, behind big enterprises like google or yahoo there is a brutal business going on; they are trading with people’s information, selling it to third parties, because they have copyrighted rights. The web sites that were supposedly trust wordy are the ones that are going against people liberty by using a fake sense of

The right to access to information is defined as a person's right to seek, receive and impart information held by the government. The United Nations, in one of its first general assembly said: "Freedom of information is a fundamental human right and the touchstone of all the freedoms that are enshrined the United Nations." In other words, law is an instrument that can be used to ensure compliance with other essential rights of man. People also have every right to be informed about news such as a good source of information to a served many people by now or they will use it in the future. In the United States, after the 9-11 acts such as the Patriot Act, in the interest of safety, has led to restrictions on access to certain types of information, as well as increased government attempts at surveillance private information of individuals, such as library records. Librarians have always advocated free access to government information. Groups such as the American Library Association, the American Association of Law Libraries have called for free access to information. It is also a central issue for unions of journalists and organizations defending democracy. As a solution for governmental controlled web sites, people are using what is call free software. Free software making approaches on free access to information and applies to the software code. Based on the principles of