Take My Privacy, Please!

Well, if I can't buy an election, can I buy all of your (very) personal information

 

by TED KOPPEL

Published: June 13, 2005

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/13/opinion/13koppel.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

THE Patriot Act - brilliant! Its critics would have preferred a less stirring title, perhaps something along the lines of the Enhanced Snooping, Library and Hospital Database Seizure Act. But then who, even right after 9/11, would have voted for that? The Patriot Act, however, may turn out to be among the lesser threats to our individual and collective privacy.