Just something interesting

While I was making research for the ‘identity online’ group project I found a really interesting article on the Economist’s website. The article is from the print edition of The Economist September 2007. The article starts with “IT USED to be easy to tell whether you were in a free country or a dictatorship. “ The writer talks about how nowadays data about people's “whereabouts, purchases, behaviour and personal lives are gathered, stored and shared on a scale that no dictator of the old school ever thought possible”. Then he goes on about how the governments and corporations transform this as they say they just do it for the public good: ‘to ward off terrorism or protect public health’ and to ‘deliver goods and services more efficiently’. (The Economist Sep 27th 2007)
I put the article on the related links if anyone wants to read it, it’s called Learning to live with Big Brother.