Since the attack on the world trade center in 2001, terrorism has become the most important threat in the world. This event affected the consciences of everybody and a war was declared against the terrorism by many countries. However, in order to protect the population, the government tends to trade civil rights for protection. Even if civil liberties are the basis of every modern constitution. This essay will argue that it is not worth to trade our liberty for some protection. Indeed, the government will not act as a protector but as a new threat. We will see that freedom and privacy are not respected in period of insecurity in many ways. The first way concerns the method of video surveillance in the street. The second point focuses of the false promise of security by trading our liberty. Finally we will see a judicial case that concerns our privacy. Firstly, many authors denounce some measures that take governments to protect its citizens. Indeed, Kaminer, the author of the article “Trading Liberty for Illusions”, focuses on the false promise of protection even if our liberty is hindered. As he said, “it’s fair to say that they constitute a threat – to privacy, liberty and even physical safety – not a promise of security”. (Kaminer 398) In other words, the country is providing a feeling of security by suspending civil liberties. In his article Kaminer talks about a horrible fact in history, the incarceration of Japanese-American during World War II. It is clearly a violation of liberty in order to convince people that they are safe. Furthermore, the main threat against our civil liberties concerns the technology, specifically the video surveillance. Indeed the government is abusing of this method to keep under surveillance the population. The government is constantly watching all of us in the street even if we are not agreed. Our liberty is not respected when we cannot walk in the street without been captur