Published by: FROGEYE PUBLICATIONS
Author: Thompson, Philip
Number of pages: 207
Group: COMPUTING - SOCIAL COMMENTARY
ISBN: 0955304016/9780955304019
User level: All
Objective: Reference
Date Published: January 2007
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The Hidden Face of Technology discusses the databases that are kept by organisations and governments and the personal information that is stored and exchanged in order to catalogue and monitor us all. The author has included details about the potential misuse of technology that is now in place and used by many companies, law enforcement agencies and government departments. He describes how legislation is being changed to support these technologies and the new policies that are trying to be implemented.

Learn how using your loyalty card ina supermarket could affect your council tax.

Find out what personal information is gathered from you each time you shop or go on the Internet and how it is openly traded between other organisations, police and governments.

Learn how school library fingerprinting could implicate yor child in future crimes.

There are more CCTV cameras watching you in Britain than any other country in the world. Each school provides the government with over forty pieces of information about your child. Every e-mail you send and receive is scanned. Your Internet browsing is monitored and recorded. Your car number plate will be recorded and checked against 40 databases each time you refuel.