Encyclopedia of Privacy

And welcome to the goldfish bowl! What makes it all the worse somehow, is that we have all of us helped make it happen, in different little well‐meaning ways. That is not to say that there is no conspiracy – there may be a desire for surveillance beyond what is needed for security underlying the American Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (the USA PATRIOT Act 2001), supermarkets do not give loyalty cards entirely out of the kindness of their hearts, and Rupert Murdoch is probably less loveable than he looks....