Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Security Scrapbook Flashback: September 1, 1998

Security Scrapbook Extra - Internet Privacy and Security
Tue, 01 Sep 1998

Review from the September 1998 issue of PC World magazine... 

Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private Life an Open Secret
by Jeffrey Rothfeder

Medical histories, bank balances, even unlisted phone numbers--the details of your life are brokered online every day. "Privacy is like clean air," says Kevin Murray, who runs Murray Associates, a New Jersey–based firm that sweeps clients' offices for bugs and other surveillance equipment. "At one time there was plenty of it. Now it's almost gone."