August 25, 2008

Privacy Rights Issues | Secret dots trigger privacy debate - Australian IT

Privacy Doesn't Exist Anymore - The Expert On Everything - A Novel by Edward David Gil

Described as “Catch-22” meets “Three Days of the Condor,” this techno-thriller with an attitude focuses on realistic technological details and takes the reader on a journey into an uncomfortable future that could easily become a reality.

OVERVIEW

Young Charlie Sanders is offered a six-figure job after only thirty seconds into an interview at Vector Systems, is mistakenly handed the company’s only prototype of a technology that can definitively erase any and all privacy in our society (code-named “Wallace”, It fits like a snug hearing aid and can maintain a conversation), is pursued like prey by more than a few interested parties – including a Governor with presidential ambitions and quite a few U.S. Senators – and begins receiving death-threats from the technology itself, which now has its own ideas.


Privacy Issues In The News

I don't know about you but I have not heard about the printer dots. It really sounds like a big violation of our privacy. Companies do not stop and think before they just go about their business. And once again the government who is supposed to uphold our rights, takes them away.
Secret dots trigger privacy debate Australian IT, Australia - 4 hours ago ... the dots themselves, but "such processing may give rise to the violation of fundamental human rights, namely the right to privacy and private life". ...

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