 To describe just a few of the contributions in this volume, Anita Allen argues that individuals have an obligation to protect their own privacy (Moore, ch. 1). While that may be true, it is not at all clear that individuals can protect their own privacy in the face of national security concerns or demands for accountability. Dorota Mokrosinska emphasizes privacy as a democratic value, thus strengthening privacy’s value when it competes with freedom of expression and other political interests.  Privacy can facilitate setting aside deep disagreements in order for political engagement in a democracy to proceed.  Thus Mokrosinska proposes a strategy for mediating between privacy and free speech when they collide (Moore, ch. 4). As noted, Kenneth Himma “argues that security is a more important right that always ‘trumps’ privacy, which on his view is not an absolute or fundamental right, but merely ‘instrumental’ to other rights” (Moore, 12, and ch. 8). Himma’s defense is based on his view that security is fundamental to survival – our most valuable duty and obligation. In contrast, responding to this view, Adam Moore defends privacy over security with multiple arguments, perhaps the most powerful of which is demonstrating “the importance of privacy as a bulwark against the tyrannical excesses of an unchecked security state” (Moore, 13, and ch. 9). Alan Rubel discusses data collection by the National Security Agency (NSA) in ch. 10, Bryce Clayton Powell focuses on surveillance practices in chapter 11, and echoes Rubel’s concerns about accountability and transparency in the processes of data collection and surveillance, thus focusing on the importance of privacy rights in this new technological era. Their concerns about law enforcement and the implementation of many practices taken to fall under the Patriot Act are also supported by Nadine Strossen’s discussion of such enforcement as often both illegal and ineffective (Moore, ch. 12). These discussions in information technology draw readers into current debates about the boundaries between and relative values of privacy, security and accountability.