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Article: Big Brother asserting himself on privacy rights.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2002
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Byline: Dan Gillmor
Maybe you remember the quaint old days, early in 2001, when privacy still mattered.
That was before Big Business used its clout to sweep aside or neuter an assortment of legislative and regulatory proposals. They might have given you and me a modicum of control over how our most personal information could be traded and sold.
That was before Sept. 11, when so many Americans decided that liberty mattered far less than safety. Since then, Big Brother has reasserted his increasingly absolute right to snoop and pry and invade the deepest recesses of our bank accounts and private lives.
And that was before this month, ...