Our Data, Ourselves

Wired by Bruce Schneier | May. 20, 2008 (Opinion)

We need a comprehensive data privacy law. This law should protect all information about us, and not be limited merely to financial or health information. It should limit others' ability to buy and sell our information without our knowledge and consent. It should allow us to see information about us held by others, and correct any inaccuracies we find. It should prevent the government from going after our information without judicial oversight. It should ... Full Story »

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Josie Garthwaite
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 by Josie Garthwaite - Oct. 1, 2008

No sources and little evidence, but lots of food for thought -- for example: "If the government wants to investigate us, they're more likely to go through our data than they are to search our homes; for a lot of that data, they don't even need a warrant."

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