The Emerging Surveillance Society:

Back in October, I blogged about a Washington Post story on datamining that demonstrated some of the hysteria common to press accounts (particularly in the Washington Post and the New York Times) about privacy and surveillance issues. In an update to the post, I noted that the author of the Post story, staff reporter Robert O’Harrow, had authored a string of such articles; nearly everything he wrote for the Post had the same “privacy under attack in a high tech society” theme. In light of those posts, I thought I would point out that O’Harrow now has a book out: No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society. It argues — surprise! — that privacy is under attack in our high tech society.