Total "Terrorism" Information Act and No Place to Hide (website):
Honestly, kind of scary...it is interesting how technology that libraries get excited about (RFID tags) has such negative possibilities. After reading through the website, No Place to Hide, and reading the chapter (10) that was available I really found myself feeling pretty weirded out. All of these "conveniences" such as "free" wifi in Starbucks, Amazon "suggesting" titles you might enjoy and your car keeping tags on you have more implications to our privacy or lack of than we could ever imagine. Not sure the "personalization" is worth it.
Total Information Act: Scary project, although I do understand where the ugency came from after 9/11. The technology is amazing and could be used to gather all the information necessary in order to keep tags on whomever is in question- the problem is differing opinions on where to draw the line. I suspect, like all espionage movies, if the information falls into the wrong hands, massive invasion of privacy ensues.
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HI Alison,
Yea, a little freaky, if you stop to think about it. I really got excited while reading about RFID. Now with all the negative possibilities that people are suggesting, I will have to rethink. But it would be great to have in our library.
If I knew who was gathering information on me, and why, this new technology might not weird us out. Just saw a movie that triangulated the perps location by using his cell phone. Can they really do that? today?
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