From Biography to Archives

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 …

…is no U. S. law against sharing data privacy (social security, driver's license, medical histories) with other countries, while the EU prevents information about their consumers from being available for marketing. We have a long way to go to fix our ill-founded presumptions about privacy and at the same time, and be more judicious in our trust of the enforcement agencies or the commercial companies with personal information, which is a byproduct of knowledge/power.