Via usnews.com, a reference to an excellent essay, e-Privacy? by Mary J. Cronin, adapted from the book Public Policy and the Internet: Privacy, Taxes, and Contract, edited by Nicholas Imparato and Mary J. Cronin.
“The everyday activities of most Americans are now routinely recorded and analyzed by a variety of governmental and commercial organizations. From telephone calls to ATM withdrawals and credit card purchases, from supermarket discount cards to doctors visits and drivers licenses, we generate data with almost every move we make. Collection and analysis of that data trigger a variety of incursions on our “right to be let alone,” from piles of advertising in our mailboxes to phone solicitations at the dinner hour to audit flags on our income tax returns.”
