We are watching you.

[andrewducker]

Meanwhile, believe it or not there's a one pixel gif just here: which allows me to track you, tell what your IP address is, which filter you read me on, and how often you drop by.

In fact, let's display some of that information:


It's amazing how little privacy you have, isn't it?

Comments

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

By the by, I'm actually about a third of the way through The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age which is pretty interesting so far. Solove is making the case that the true danger of the death of privacy isn't an Orwellian Big Brother but more of a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracies with digital dossiers on everyone and completely indifferent to the errors that might creep in and ruin someone's day (or life).

[andrewducker]

Which is why we need one big centralised database that's never ever wrong :->

[terminalmalaise.livejournal.com]

Perfect! Now we just have to work out what goes into it, who gets to access it (in whole or in part) and what they can do with the information within. :)

[andrewducker]

You should hear the arguing over the current UK ID card project - which is about exactly that...

[0olong.livejournal.com]

That's something Brazil satirised terribly, terribly well, and I was heavily struck last time I watched it by how much truer than 1984 it rings.