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Article

1 Mar 2002

Author:
Wayne Madsen, senior fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Multinational Monitor

The Business of the Watchers: Privacy Protections Recede as the Purveyors of Digital Security Technologies Capitalize on September 11

In the wake of September 11, a wide array of corporations, with the active encouragement of the U.S. government, are developing new and extremely intrusive systems to capture personal data, biometric data and video information.