Philosophy Talk

Is the right to privacy – the right to be left alone and to control one’s personal information – really a right?  Is privacy just a privilege that can be revoked any time it conflicts with other more important needs, like the need to protect our security?  Who has the right to infringe upon our privacy and for what particular purposes?  How much public surveillance do we really need to stay safe and does that count as an infringement on our privacy?  How does our use of social media undermine our claims to privacy?  John and Ken talk publicly with George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age.