The Security Mentor

A lot of them would say privacy is about control over, or ownership of, information about you. In the world that privacy advocates want, you could challenge any misinformation about you just as you could challenge an incorrect credit report.

In a way, that's what the centuries-old idea of a criminal trial is about. In an emergency, like after you're arrested, you can force a review of the evidence the prosecutor has against you and get errors thrown out.

Which is what was missing in the case of the innocent man tortured for a year in Syria due to bogus intelligence records. He's an illustration of the point that "civil liberties" are not a privilege but a security measure.