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Published: April 2008
ACLU video a scary vision of privacy future
A video released by the American Civil Liberties Union illustrates how new technology, such as behavioral marketing and online tracking, combined with weak privacy laws, could reveal personal information and erode individual privacy rights.
Click here to view the ACLU video
In the video, a pizza parlor is able look up a caller's medical records, employment history, credit card purchases, travel plans, library loans and magazines that his wife subscribes to without his consent. Text accompanying the video urges the viewer to help prevent a "Total Surveillance Society" and notes that "the Bush Administration's policies, coupled with invasive new technologies, could eliminate your right to privacy completely."
ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said, "The fact is that new technologies and new government policies are eroding our personal privacy and creating a 24-hour total surveillance society. We need to reach people on a basic level and show them how this massive erosion of privacy could have a real impact on their daily lives, even in their late-night pizza deliveries."
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