Free speech is merely an extension of (or synonymous with, depending on your outlook,) the freedom of expression. One of the greatest determinants of the importance of freedom of expression is that you're able to choose that which you don't express. That's the dividing line between important expression.

Everybody I talk to doesn't seem to grasp this idea that freedom to privacy is just the necessary consequence of freedom of expression.

I have no problem giving up my right to privacy if it keeps myself and my homeland safer.

I have no problem giving up my right to privacy if it keeps myself and my homeland safer.

That's a fine sacrifice for you to make.

However, one cannot force others to violate their right to privacy.

It's a bit too late for that decision anyway with the internet and the NSA.

Spoiler

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.

Franklin?