Database Nation - Simson Garfinkel

Imagine a world where everything you did was recorded. Where every time you went online your actions were monitored. Where every purchase you made could be cross-referenced. Sound scary? Well, in case you hadn’t guessed, these are all possible today, and in many cases are more commonplace than you might imagine. In Database Nation, Simson Garfinkel, a journalist who writes for the American technology magazine Wired, gives a chilling account of the ways in which modern technology has the potential to infringe our privacy. With the widespread use of computers nowadays, he argues that it is about time that we start to examine just what we expect of ...  Read the complete review