Tech Privacy Issues Since 1971
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I know privacy issues related to computer databases & such have been an issue for a long time but this is the first item I’ve seen that puts any kind of a date on it.
Tech Privacy Issues Remain Confounding
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. AP - In 1971, before most people had even used a computer, legal scholar Arthur R. Miller wrote that the rise of databases being harnessed by credit agencies, governments and corporations was creating a difficult problem: “balancing privacy and efficiency.”
Even without computers this tendency of governments and corporations to try to know everything about everyone would still have cropped up. Computers just made it easier. Government and corporate lust for power would have found another way if not for computers.
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