A Gift of Fire

Privacy:
Computers are not necessarily for the invasion of privacy. Privacy will be discussed at great length later. Just because computers have made new threats possible, by no means these threats have not always existed. Medical, financial, details of purchases, evidence of romantic affairs can all be found in someone's garbage.

So computers are not necessary for the invasion of privacy they have made a profound impact on the information that can be gathered (sometimes without out permission or knowledge), who has access to it, how is it being used, and how often. Besides: surveillance, privacy is probably the "computer issue" that drawls the most attention.

There are three aspects of privacy:
* freedom from intrusion
* control of information about oneself
* freedom from surveillance (being followed, watched, and eavesdropped upon)

To be continued ..........