An interesting article on MIT’s Alumni website commenting on new Information privacy laws. The article is titled “Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction: On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Poindexter” ::: http://alumweb.mit.edu/whatmatters/200301/
The article comments on the new US government R&D program which uses information technology for unprecedented surveillance on a massive scale. The program is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military agency which sponsored early development of the Internet.