A survey released on web privacy suggests computer users are extremely vulnerable to cyber space spying and other personal intrusions by internet businesses. The results could help frame the debate whether the industry can police itself or the governments must step in to protect millions of personal computer users. Robert Ellis Smith, lawyer and author of "Our vanishing privacy and what you can do to protect yours", talks about the information collection industry and how it is the growing threat to privacy. Robert Ellis Smith goes over examples of how people’s personal information including health information can be sold by information brokers.
Segment Subjects (keywords for the segment): credit reports, social security number, personal bar code
Guest Names: Robert Ellis Smith
Web Privacy
DONATE →
This is viewer supported news
Recent Shows More
Stories
"The Unimaginable Has Happened": Massive Tornado Kills Dozens, Flattens Suburb of Oklahoma City
Dozens have been killed and more than 200 wounded in a devastating tornado in Oklahoma. The storm tore through...
Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to U.S., Crippling Economic Policies Causing Global Health Crisis
In their new book, "The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills," economist David Stuckler and physician...
Headlines
-
Dozens Dead in Oklahoma Tornado
-
Guatemalan Court Overturns Genocide Verdict for Ex-Dictator Ríos Montt
-
Foreclosed Homeowners Arrested at Justice Department Protest for Bank Prosecutions
-
Report: Banks Lagging on Settlement Payments for Mortgage Wrongdoing
-
Report: CIA to Transfer Drone Program to Pentagon
-
White House Defends Tracking of Fox News Reporter
-
Obama Hosts Burmese Leader at White House
-
Survey: Scientists Have 97% Consensus Human Activity Causes Climate Change
-
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Begins at U.N.
-
Poverty in U.S. Suburbs Exceeds Urban Areas
-
Senate Report Says Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes
-
Protest Against School Closings Leads to Arrests at Chicago City Hall
-
Landmark "Stop and Frisk" Trial Concludes in NYC
-
Hundreds Honor Gay New Yorker Shot Dead in Apparent Hate Crime
The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org
. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions,
contact us.
