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Article: 'NAKED CROWD' ASKS PRICE OF SHEDDING LIBERTIES.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2004
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Byline: L.E. Rich, Special To The News
Our greatest fear just might be fear itself - especially with the din of pleas for heightened security in our post-Sept. 11 world.
But while we may be ready to compromise privacy and liberty with surveillance cameras or national ID cards, law professor Jeffrey Rosen raises an alarm in The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age. Are we throwing the constitutional baby out with the bathwater?
Rosen begins his timely narrative by exposing our willingness to embrace high-priced technology that may not be able to deliver the security it promises. Even if it can, Rosen asks how high a ...