Don't make me quote Ben Franklin at you
This is a familiar debate, security versus freedom. Tempting to lapse into a written German accent und riff about how iff you haff nussing to hide, vy von't you ansah the question, hmmmm? But that'd be repeating myself ad nauseum.
Besides, am I the only one to see the irony of quoting George Orwell right about now? You know, the guy who wrote 1984 about a fictional precursor to today's surveillance state? Ring any bells?
Do you think maybe the NSA wasn't quite the benevolant-yet-rough night watchman that Orwell had in mind?