Re: <nettime> Privacy Won't Help Us (Fight Surveillance)

[Novica Nakov <novica@bagra.net.mk>]

| Every time we use a loyalty card at a retailer, our names are correlated
| with our purchases and entered into giant databases. Every time we pass an
| electronic toll booth on the highway, every time we use a cell phone or a
| credit card, our locations are being recorded, analyzed and stored. Every
| time we go to see a doctor, submit an insurance claim, pay our utility
| bills, interact with the government, or go online, the picture gleaned from
| our actions and states grows finer and fatter.

And this how Microsoft wants to solve our problems:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp?cp1=1

But will it: http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html ?

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Novica

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