Evaluation:
Published: 27.06.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'From Biography to Archives', 1.
  • Essays 'From Biography to Archives', 2.
Extract

Due to the escalating sophistication of technology during the information age, privacy has become a romantic myth, an urban legend newscasters and armchair politicians keep in circulation. Electronic surveillance has effectively banished privacy from the public sector. E.g., there are hidden cameras behind the mirror in the dressing rooms at department stores. Consumer demographics has led to obnoxious telemarketers calling you during dinnertime hawking a product or a service you may or may not need. The emergence of the internet as the communication medium has in turn created a long digit…

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