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Just How Much Privacy Do We Have?

Posted by timothy on from the enough-to-resent-the-loss-of-the-rest dept.

stuffman64 writes: "Popular Science is running an excellent article on just how private our daily lives are. The article chronicles a typical day of a make-believe Graphics Designer from Chicago. Throughout his day, he unwittingly supplies companies with information that can potentially be used against him. And with GPS-enabled cell phones just starting to hit the market, our privacy can only continue to deteriorate from here. A must read."

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  1. Tracking isn't all bad... by CProgrammer98 · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    From the article
    "In May of this year, for example, an 18-year-old Miami girl was kidnapped and murdered on a Saturday night. By working with her bank to track transactions on her ATM card, the police were able to follow her abductors as they traveled from one location to another"

    If the privacy advocates had their way, this criminal would probably still be out there.

    'nuff said.

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    And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour Isaiah 3:5