Information Technology – Is It Going Too Far
We live in an age of information technology where incredible amounts of information about every topic under the sun is right at our finger tips. But just as all that information is becoming available to us our personal information is being harvested and made available to others.
For example every time you do a search on Google the search engine collects information about you. If you use Gmail (another Google product) everything you write in an email or receive in an email is kept on file by Google. If you use Google Desktop then Google is collecting information that is stored on your computer.
Google is not the only one collecting information about you. There are many online entities that are collecting information about you and storing it away for future use.
There are many experts who believe that the scenario depicted in this short video by the American Civil Liberties Union is not far away.
