now this is cool. make it go to 150km/hr and I'll buy two!
In 2006, David Holtzman decided to do an experiment. Holtzman, a security consultant and former intelligence analyst, was working on a book about privacy, and he wanted to see how much he could find out about himself from sources available to any tenacious stalker. So he did background checks. He pulled his credit file. He looked at Amazon.com transactions and his credit-card and telephone bills. He got his DNA analyzed and kept a log of all the people he called and e-mailed, along with the Web sites he visited.
In the future everything will be monitored and no one will really have true privacy unless they choose to live as a hermit. The two big issues pushing this will be "national" security (although it will probably be considered global security) and a move towards cashless society where your identity will be tied up in everything you do (ex. fingerprinting and iris ID or even the use of RFID chips). Although we should all try hard to defend our privacy, we are fighting a losing battle and its a matter of time before true privacy will no longer exist.
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