September 10, 2008

Your Privacy still weak | Sept. 11: A year later, online privacy and security still weak - Computerworld

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

Here is a great article by Andrew Brandt, PC World that online privacy has a long way to go to being private.

Sept. 11: A year later, online privacy and security still weak
Computerworld, MA - 27 minutes ago
Yet there remains plenty of concern that an overzealous online hunt for al-Qaeda threatens the privacy rights of law-abiding Americans. ...


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