Our private lives are open books to anyone who can gain access to our telephone and internet communications, financial and consumer data, even our genetic data and video recordings of our movements. At the same time, our government asserts that to protect the nation from terrorists it has the right to monitor our private communications and obtain financial information from private businesses through national security letters. What safeguards are needed? Can and will the courts protect our constitutional right to privacy? Are privacy and security mutually exclusive?

Panelists included:

• Moderator, Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School (Windows Media)
• Leslie Harris, President, Center for Democracy & Technology (Windows Media)
• Orin Kerr, Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School (Windows Media)
• Melissa Ngo, Privacy and Information Policy Consultant (Windows Media)
• Marcy Wilder, Hogan & Hartson LLP (Windows Media)

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