Living With Total Surveillance

September 15, 2002 - Backgrounder

Deborah Pierce's Law and Technology column from the September 12 Seattle Press:

Bank deposits and spending patterns scrutinized; a subpoena issued to Planned Parenthood for the names of all women who visited the clinic over the last nine months; police filling a database with names, addresses, and photos of people they believe will commit a crime—we are in the process of creating the surveillance state that George Orwell feared in “1984”. As disturbing as this is, many people don’t even realize that it is happening.

More information is available at <http://www.seattlepress.com/article-9959.html>.

Last updated September 15, 2002