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Privacy In The Age Of Big Brother
21 November 2006
'Speed through the checkout with just a wave of your arm'.
So said a headline in The Times newspaper in London recently.
'It may sound like a sci-fi fantasy,' said the accompanying report, 'but shoppers may one day be able to pay their grocery bills using a microchip implanted in their body.'
The possibilities for abuse of such technologies are enormous and raise huge questions about personal identity -- not to mention political control.
In this age of Radio Frequency ID tags (RFIDs), CCTV surveillance, one-card-does-everything-credit and identity fraud, is their really any such thing as privacy any more?
Check out the TV documentary on privacy at edges.tv.
Social commentator Mal Fletcher looks at the challenges facing us in an age of big brother technologies and discusses how we might retain control of our lives.
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