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Loading... Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (2000)by Simson Garfinkel
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"Scare us he does, but while Garfinkel succeeds in his mission of building awareness, his overall thesis is less convincing. ... Database Nation is an excellent compendium of the many situations that threaten our privacy."
Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's ""Big Brother"" language to discuss privacy issues. But the reality is that the age of a monolithic Big Brother is over. And yet the threats are perhaps even more likely to destroy the rights we've assumed we No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)323.4480973Social sciences Political Science Civil and political rights The state and the individual Liberty Privacy, Freedom from SurveillanceLC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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