We need to know who's watching whom. The mainstream media like to portray incidents in which information flies across the Net in seeming defiance of the laws of space and time as examples of mob hysteria, particularly over privacy issues and the rules of cyberspace. Last month's contretemps over Social Security numbers and mothers' maiden names available on Lexis-Nexis is but the latest example. They are watching us. We should be watching them.
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