The Tightening Net: Part Two

The U.S. codified the idea of constitutionally-guaranteed privacy, but other countries do a much better job of protecting it these days. Many Europeans own their own data, and Canada actually has a privacy commissioner. That's not likely to happen here anytime soon. In the U.S., we may never be able to control our own data again, or protect ourselves from the indiscriminate use of databases and unaccountable institutions to make decisions that affect our personal, financial and work lives. Nor do many people seem to care if corporations own and sell the details of their lives.