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Big Business Becoming Big Brother

Posted by TimSlavin at August 10, 2004

"Data aggregators -- companies that aggregate information from numerous private and public databases -- and private companies that collect information about their customers are increasingly giving or selling data to the government to augment its surveillance capabilities and help it track the activities of people.

Because laws that restrict government data collection don't apply to private industry, the government is able to bypass restrictions on domestic surveillance."

From Wired. They've also got an interesting counter-point article, Getting Naked for Big Brother that argues people are less concerned about privacy and more concerned about their ability to control exposure of their private data.

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