In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twentyfour hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and smart toll roads know where you drive. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy. Such measures, he warns, wont really preserve our privacy. Governments, the wealthy, criminals, and the technoelite will still find ways to watch us. But well have fewer ways to watch them. Well lose the key to a free society accountability.The Transparent Society is a call for reciprocal transparency. If police cameras watch us, shouldnt we be able to watch police stations? If credit bureaus sell our data, shouldnt we know who buys it? Rather than cling to an illusion of anonymitya historical anomaly, given our origins in closeknit villageswe should focus on guarding the most important forms of privacy and preserving mutual accountability. The biggest threat to our freedom, Brin warns, is that surveillance technology will be used by too few people, now by too many.A society of glass houses may seem too fragile. Fearing technologyaided crime, governments seek to restrict online anonymity fearing technologyaided tyranny, citizens...

Binding: Paperback;388 pages; Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA; Classification: JHM; Weight: 588 g; Dimensions: 216 x 141 x 21

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