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Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.
We have to ask ourselves anew the larger question: What surveillance power should the government have? And to what extent should the government be allowed to manage the development of technology to embody its surveillance capability?
Sure, the more intrusive the government becomes, the more potential crime it can solve.
The approach we take to identity theft is to put the burden on consumers to take steps to prevent it.
Most companies are keeping all employee files online now.
But our society is founded on the fact that we don't want to give the government this broad-based power.
Even though its anonymous, it's still ominous. It troubles me because it does show this movement toward using a technology to track people.
That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about. This is something that Congress has been very derelict in addressing.
That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about, ... This is something that Congress has been very derelict in addressing.
A cola company might safeguard its secret cola recipe with all its might, and it will do nothing to keep its own employees' identities safe.
They have yet to answer: Why didn't you go to FISA court? It could be that the administration thought it couldn't meet some of the FISA standards.
In a big city, it's increasingly hard to go throughout the day without being captured on many surveillance cameras.
Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.
A lot can be learned about a person through the combination of massive amounts of data and the use of sophisticated analytical techniques.