Transparent Society
Transparent Society In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and "smart" toll roads know where…
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Transparent Society
In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and "smart" toll roads know where you drive. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay.
David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy.
Such measures, he warns, won't really preserve our privacy. Governments, the wealthy, criminals, and the techno-elite will still find ways to watch us. But we'll have fewer ways to watch them.
We'll lose the key to a free society: accountability.The Transparent Society is a call for "reciprocal transparency." If police cameras