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Mounting Challenges to Privacy

The scale that privacy is being eroded by the application of computer technology is alarming. The post 9/11 debate about privacy verses security was late in coming, but in some instances seems to have been by passed by the rush to install surveillance technology, and commercial use of tracking technology that leaves the privacy rights of consumers behind. The article is an analysis of what has come and what may be in store for the American consumer.

Privacy Eroding, Bit by Byte, Washington Post, October 15, 2004