The end of privacy
Subtitle: how total surveillance is becoming a reality
By: Reg Whitaker.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Intelligence service.; Privacy, Right of.; Information society.; Information society -- Political aspects.
Description: The Information Revolution and the rise of the networked society are reconstituting the structures of power on a global scale. In The End of Privacy, Reg Whitaker, a leading expert on government surveillance, shows that these developments pose dramatic new threats to personal privacy.

Reg Whitaker shows how vast amounts of personal information are moving into corporate hands. Once there, this data can be combined and used to develop electronic profiles of individuals and groups that are potentially far more detailed, and far more intrusive, than the files built up in the past by state police and security agencies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.