Review: Database Nation –The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (Paperback)

Quite Useful Exploration of Technology vs. Values, May 31, 2006 Simson Garfinkel I have been reading books about privacy, notably from Australia where they first got worried about this, and am an admirer of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) based in Washington, D.C. so I can say with confidence that this book is not …

Informed, Engaged, Democracy Collective Public Intelligence

May 3, 2006 Citizens Party, part II Informed, Engaged, Democracy Collective Public Intelligence By: Robert D. Steele Introduction If we want an extraordinary future for all of our children, America and Americans must embrace reality. While, as a society, we may have recently found it comfortable to ignore reality, reality is most assuredly going forward, …

2006 Robert Steele: Reinventing Intelligence

REINVENTING INTELLIGENCE Robert David Steele America is spending $70 billion a year on what it calls “Intelligence,” and for that amount of money we are successfully stealing 5% and ignoring 95% of the information relevant to our national security and prosperity.  We are long over-due for a reinvention of national intelligence. Without belaboring the point, …