Database nation: the death of privacy in the 21st century 9780596550646, 0596550642
As the 21st century begins, advances in technology endanger our privacy in ways never before imagined. This newly revise
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English Pages 357 pages Year 2008
Table of contents :
Database Nation --
The Role of Technology --
The Role of Government --
Fighting Back --
Why This Book? --
2. Database Nation --
How We Got Here --
America Adopts the Ssn --
It Could Happen To You --
Identity theft: a Stolen self --
Looking Forward By Looking back --
Our Databanked Future --
3. Absolute Identification --
Anthropometrical Signalment --
The Science of Fingerprints --
Afis --
Dna Identification --
Dna Fingerprinting Today --
The Dna databank --
Computerized Biometrics --
Biometric Piracy --
Identifying Bodies, Not People --
4. What Did You Do Today? --
False Data Syndrome. The Tracking Process: How Our Information is turned Against UsStep 2: Make Data machine-readable --
Step 3: Build a big Database --
The Biggest Database In the World --
The Age of Public Statements --
Smart Machines Create Active Databanks --
Turning Back the Information tide --
5. The View From Above --
The Eye In the Sky --
The Eye On the Ground --
Video Surveillance For the Rest of Us --
Webcam --
From Webcam To wearcam --
Fumbling For the "off" Switch --
What Was That? --
The Systematic surveillance of scien.
