Database Nation

Dedication; Chapter 1: Privacy Under Attack; 1.1 What Do We Mean By Privacy?; 1.2 The Role of Technology; 1.3 The Role of Government; 1.4 Fighting Back; 1.5 Why This Book?; Chapter 2: Database Nation; 2.1 Thirty-four Years Later; 2.2 How We Got Here; 2.3 It Could Happen To You; 2.4 Identity theft: a Stolen self; 2.5 Looking Forward By Looking back; 2.6 Our Databanked Future; Chapter 3: Absolute Identification; 3.1 On the Identification of infants; 3.2 Anthropometrical Signalment; 3.3 The Science of Fingerprints; 3.4 Dna Identification; 3.5 Computerized Biometrics; 3.6 Identifying Bodies, Not People; Chapter 4: What Did You Do Today?; 4.1 The Information Crisis; 4.2 False Data Syndrome; 4.3 The Tracking Process: How Our Information is turned Against Us; 4.4 The Biggest Database In the World; 4.5 The Age of Public Statements; 4.6 Smart Machines Create Active Databanks; 4.7 Turning Back the Information tide; Chapter 5: The View From Above; 5.1 Hey, i Live Here!; 5.2 The Eye In the Sky; 5.3 The Eye On the Ground; 5.4 Video Surveillance For the Rest of Us; 5.5 Webcam; 5.6 From Webcam To wearcam; 5.7 Fumbling For the "off" Switch; 5.8 What Was That?; 5.9 The Systematic surveillance of science; 5.10 One World, Like It Or Not; Chapter 6: To Know Your Future; 6.1 No Bigger Gap; 6.2 The Medical Records Fairy Tale; 6.3 Privacy Is Your Doctor's Responsibility; 6.4 Privacy Is Not Your insurance Company's Responsibility; 6.5 Nobody Knows the Mib; 6.6 Forcing Physicians To Lie; 6.7 A Right To Your Self; 6.8 A Right To Your Past; 6.9 Computerized Patient Records: the promise; 6.10 Computerized Patient Records: the threat; 6.11 Other Threats; 6.12 Rethinking Medical Care And medical Insurance; Chapter 7: Buy Now!; 7.1 Marketing And the Knowledge Crisis; 7.2 They've Got You Targeted: the Process of Direct Marketing; 7.3 Taking Direct Action against direct Marketing; Chapter 8: Who Owns Your Information?; 8.1 Do You Own your Name?; 8.2 Do You Own your Feet?; 8.3 Do You Own your Books?; 8.4 Do You Own What you Do?; 8.5 Do You Want To Use Ownership to Protect your privacy?; Chapter 9: Kooks and Terrorists; 9.1 The Democratization of destructive Technology; 9.2 The Dish of death; 9.3 The Changing Face of Terrorism; 9.4 Home-grown Terrorism; Chapter 10: Excuse Me, But Are You Human?; 10.1 Simulated Humans Can't Be Trusted; 10.2 Eliza And Her Children; 10.3 The Computer As Your agent; 10.4 Avatar Rights Now!; Chapter 11: Privacy Now!; 11.1 Technology Is Not neutral; 11.2 A Government Privacy Agenda For the twenty-first Century; 11.3 Buy Your Own Privacy; 11.4 Privacy's Radical Fringe; 11.5 Conclusion; Chapter 12: Epilogue: One Year Later; 12.1 Attacks On Privacy Continue; 12.2 What's the Answer?; 12.3 The Metrocard Story; 12.4 Looking Across the Border; 12.5 It's In Our Hands; 12.6 Where To Go For Help; Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography; Web Sites; Acknowledgments;