So the part that scares me about the statement that “Privacy and security are a zero-sum game” is not that it implies that to get better security people must give up some of their privacy. What really scares me is that this shows that key people in the US Government believe that anything which harms privacy will, as a side effect, improve security. Sadly, I think this explains a lot of the actions by the US Department of Homeland Security – when they can’t think of anything to do to improve security they decide to harm privacy instead.

for a few hours at least, Canada’s government showed a spine… …