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[privacy] Computers 'Could Store Your Entire Life by 2026'
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:20:47 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Telegraph.co.uk. [snip] A device the size of a sugar cube will be able to record and store high resolution video footage of every second of a human life within two decades, experts said yesterday. Researchers said governments and societies must urgently debate the implications of the huge increases in computing power and the growing mass of information being collected on individuals. Some fear that the advent of "human black boxes" combined with the extension of medical, financial and other digital records will lead to loss of privacy and a dramatic expansion of the nanny state. [snip] More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/13/nlife13.xml - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFgN8qq1pz9mNUZTMRAuVLAKCMR3sCBJ2Jx/yxewKaNpxHjCG1RgCgsuGd HKl6Kvg084mwy44fjF7bj9A= =py32 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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