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Article: Privacy's obsolete - your infamous `number' made that true
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 2, 1987
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Privacy is as obsolete as a 45-r.p.m. record. The privacy of
the individual ended years ago with a number that has been assigned
to you for life! You can change your name, your address and your
telephone number, but you can't change the number.
No longer will your name be needed or even known in the near
future (some say this has already happened). Each person will have a
number - the infamous Social Security number - used instead of a
name, so that every activity and condition of his or her life can be
electronically recorded from birth to death. The record will be
instantly available anywhere to anyone in "authority." It will be
part of the perpetual memory of a computer bank that ...