WHEN it comes to the ways in which recent technology has changed the state of civil liberties in countries that profess to have them, , a computer science researcher, and , a professor of artificial intelligence, know what they are talking about. Timely and balanced, their book is a scary treatise about the way technology has eroded privacy and continues to do so.
Privacy was once protected largely by the absence of any means for invading it. New technologies, however, are increasingly undermining that protection. We know that credit cards and mobile…
