Book shows risks of surveillance society

Daniel J. Solove, The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the
Information Age: "THE DIGITAL PERSON TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Daniel J. Solove ISBN: 0814798462

"A pathbreaking account of the threat to privacy in today’s digitized world.

Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers.  These databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases--which Daniel J. Solove calls ‘digital dossiers’--has thus far gone largely unchecked.  In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy."