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Title: Privacy in 2020
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Published: Sep 10, 2007
Author: Kim Zetter E
Post Date: 2007-09-10 21:48:50 by tom007
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Privacy in 2020 By Kim Zetter EmailSeptember 07, 2007 | 11:40:52 AMCategories: Privacy 1984_podbrix_playset_3 PCs with a mandatory static IP address. Every car outfitted with a working transponder. A penniless marketplace where every purchase and financial transaction is electronically tracked. Mandatory MySpace pages that every citizen will be required to maintain with up-to-date contact information. These are some of the practices that Robert Gellman, a privacy and information practices consultant in Washington, DC, says will be commonplace in 2020. Gellman makes other predictions about our Winston Smith future as well. He says biometrics and other authentication systems will be a standard feature on all computers in the next decade, requiring individuals to identify themselves before a computer will work. All e-mail and logs of network and search activity will be stored permanently. And health insurance companies will soon require policyholders to submit to food purchase monitoring in an effort to control healthcare costs. The latter, Gellman says, will lead to a black market in under-the-table junkfood sales. Hmm. Might the food monitoring begin this way? Have some predictions of your own? Send 'em in. Photo: PodBrix
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#1. To: tom007, *libertarians* (#0)
Don't forget to join the Libertarian ping list.
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"Satan / Cheney in "08"
infants will have a tracking chip implanted. it will be "sold" as a safety measure, a service provided free of charge by our caring government. as you grow older, you can't have it removed, because it will be your only form of identification in our paperless society, and without identification you can't move freely about.
Yeh - the ole "its for the kids" scam, when it is really for $$ and control. Look at the disgraceful HPV vaccine scam for teen age girls.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
Blah blah blah. I've been reading science fiction since I was 11, those writers are pros and almost always wrong, I'm going to believe this second-rater of a clown? I was a newspaper reporter and editor. The only thing that sells is bad news, like this article. "More freedom, less government, a new era dawning" and no one will believe it.
"He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." - G.K. Chesterton
Prolly cause nobody sees it. More Freedom??? Less Government??? I haven't seen that.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
I was a newspaper reporter and editor. The only thing that sells is bad news, like this article. "More freedom, less government, a new era dawning" and no one will believe it. You neglect to note how much of the predictions of the past 20 years [beginning on S/W radio] have already come true. Perfectly true. Those conspiracy theorists were right. You may be a good writer, but hasn't history insisted you think out of the propaganda box that has been played as "normal" thought? For your own protection, I think it's time to open your mind to what lies before your eyes.
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"every time government grows it is at the expense of personal liberty" - Ron Paul
#2. To: farmfriend (#1)
#3. To: tom007 (#0)
#4. To: kiki (#3)
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
#6. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
"More freedom, less government, a new era dawning" and no one will believe it.
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
Blah blah blah. I've been reading science fiction since I was 11, those writers are pros and almost always wrong, I'm going to believe this second-rater of a clown?
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
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