The Underlying Values and their Alignment

We have made repeated references to the liberal democratic values at stake in contemporary digital technologies. It is now time to attempt to articulate them in greater detail and, in particular, to offer accounts that might have some claim to broad, if not universal, acceptance within liberal polities. We focus initially on security, a value in any society, but distinctively construed within a liberal polity, before reviewing the ways in which strategies for assuring it may come into tension with other important liberal values – privacy, autonomy and dignity – and thus impinge on liberal identity. Both crime and terrorism