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Security vs. Privacy

By Milica D. Djekic

This new time would not deal with the security only, but rather with the privacy as well. As it’s
known, the security is a process of maintaining the acceptable level of a risk. So, in other words
– the security is about the risk management. On the other hand, the privacy is a concept that
would require that the users of some operation could get known, but what they do would stay
confidential. That means their activities would stay private or only get reserved to them. Also,
we would want to highlight here that the security would so often know too much about anyone
and people would get concerned that their governments could use against them those findings
or apply them as some sort of a mass control.

Well, the fact is that the defense staff would deal with so many findings about anyone, but those
information would so commonly remain confidential and secret, so the rights of residents would
get somehow protected. It’s also well known that some social mainstreams like the humanitarian
ones would fight for the human rights claiming that the people deserve to leave some of their
privacy to themselves.

This is accurate from one perspective, but – on the other hand – those human rights would
guarantee to the people to be safe – so, from that perspective – it’s quite understandable that
the security would get the big role in our lives and possibly get closely connected with the
human rights. Through this article we would try to debate the topic – security vs. privacy – and
not only that. We would try to make a good discussion that would lead to a dialog and try to
make a peace between these two opposing streams.

Let’s start with the privacy! This concept is something that would offer you an opportunity to
remain some of your own
habits, behavioral patterns
and personal passions
belonging only to you. No
one else would know
anything about them or a
very small cycle of your
trusted persons would get
somehow familiar with
those information.

The people simply love to
leave some of their little
private rituals or games
remaining only theirs. So,

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