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Databases make our lives an open book, and the trend is getting scarier all the time.
He's right on the facts, wrong on the attitude. It's undeniable that the existence of enormous databases on everything from our medical histories to whether we like beef jerky may make our lives an open book, thanks to the ability of computers to manipulate that information in every conceivable way. But I suspect even McNealy might have problems with somebody publishing his family's medical records on the Web, announcing his whereabouts to the world, or disseminating misinformation about his credit history. The sooner this happens, the better. Your Info Belongs to Us Thanks to political outrage after Judge Robert Bork's video rental habits were unearthed during his Supreme Court nomination hearings in the late 1980s, it's now illegal for video stores to reveal your rental records.