The Transparent Society
The Transparent Society (
1998, ISBN 0-7382-0144-8, ISBN 020132802X) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author
David Brin in which he forecasts the erosion of
privacy, as it is overtaken by low-cost
surveillance,
communication and
database technology. He argues that we must choose between privacy and
freedom in the new "transparent society" that is being created.
The collation of all publicly and privately available personal data in the United States by the Information Awareness Office is viewed by some as a move towards the future envisaged by Brin in his book.
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