December 19, 2004
Jeff Harrow on "Surveillance Mesh"
In an analogy that should put a chill into the hearts of privacy advocates, technology analyst wonders if personal privacy is "going the way of the buggy whip." The buggy whip is often conjured up as a great example of a technology that is passé, no longer needed because no one has a buggy any more. (A buggy, for those of you born since the 1950s, is a small cart pulled by a horse.) In this case, the convergence of a number of technologies seems to be bringing us to a state where no one has personal privacy any more. It is just plain old fashioned to even think of it. See the rest of his post for details.Continue reading "Jeff Harrow on "Surveillance Mesh""
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