December 10, 2004
Information-Age Privacy Concerns Are More Kafkaesque Than Orwellian
We are in the midst of an information revolution, and we are only beginning to understand its implications. The past few decades have witnessed a dramatic transformation in the way we shop, bank, and go about our daily business -- changes that have resulted in an unprecedented proliferation of records and data. Small details that were once captured in dim memories or fading scraps of paper are now constantly sifted, sorted, rearranged, and combined in hundreds of ways, then preserved
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