More Tales of Big Brother
Posted by Russ Ray on May 6, 2008
How far into your life does a computer have to penetrate in order to remain a tool and not an annoyance or intrusion? What if your bank considered you a credit risk and could shut down your car if you were late on a payment?
Or, maybe you might have to take your computer in for service, and the Geek Squad just happens to pilfer through your computer looking for private photographs. So many people look at the computer like an automobile: it’s something to use until the wheels fall off, and then you’re looking at major repairs, you have to take it in, and then you’re at their mercy. I guess (thankfully) that they’re stealing pictures, and not financial information.
Or perhaps yet another hospital or a big box store or a social networking site or a financial institution or a grocery store is accidentally releasing private data. I think you get the point there.
