O'Harrow Book Maps Data Landscape
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In "No Place to Hide" (Free Press 2005), Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in extensive detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data companies and government anti-terror initiatives. Drawing on years of investigation, O'Harrow shows how the government is using private databases to promote homeland security and fight the war on terror.
O'Harrow builds his book with stories of key players in this new world, from software inventors to counterintelligence officials. While O'Harrow offers few policy recommendations, his book is a indispensable introduction to the new world of high-tech data collection and analysis. "More than ever before," O'Harrow concludes, "the details of our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe." He quotes Viet Dinh, often credited as the author of the PATRIOT Act: "The leap in technology has not been met with a proportionate response in terms of how we think of this technology. We need to think more creatively.'"
Detailed information about online civil liberties issues may be found at http://www.cdt.org/
My own personal feelings about all the information being gathered about me is "WHY?" But I know why, they want to make sure I'm not a threat, and since they don't know me personally then I am a threat until they learn I'm a broke divorced mother of 3, who's only threat is to a local bank she may rob some day - MAYBE... *eg*
I like to keep them guessing
In "No Place to Hide" (Free Press 2005), Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in extensive detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data companies and government anti-terror initiatives. Drawing on years of investigation, O'Harrow shows how the government is using private databases to promote homeland security and fight the war on terror.
O'Harrow builds his book with stories of key players in this new world, from software inventors to counterintelligence officials. While O'Harrow offers few policy recommendations, his book is a indispensable introduction to the new world of high-tech data collection and analysis. "More than ever before," O'Harrow concludes, "the details of our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe." He quotes Viet Dinh, often credited as the author of the PATRIOT Act: "The leap in technology has not been met with a proportionate response in terms of how we think of this technology. We need to think more creatively.'"
Detailed information about online civil liberties issues may be found at http://www.cdt.org/
My own personal feelings about all the information being gathered about me is "WHY?" But I know why, they want to make sure I'm not a threat, and since they don't know me personally then I am a threat until they learn I'm a broke divorced mother of 3, who's only threat is to a local bank she may rob some day - MAYBE... *eg*
I like to keep them guessing
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