The modest encroachments on privacy that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration without a name attached and not looking at content was worth us doing. You can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience and, in the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance.To which I would respond with the classic words of The Greatest American Ever, Benjamin Franklin, who told the Continental Congress in 1776:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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