How Online Privacy Has Become an Oxymoron
Within days of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, politicians, social scientists and anyone else who could find a microphone was repeating a line that would soon become a mantra: Americans will have to make some sacrifices in the name of greater security and safety. Viewed now through the prism of privacy, that looks like the understatement of the century. Americans have surrendered virtually all of their privacy and have gotten nothing but wave after wave of new attacks and threats in return.
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