Personal Privcay is dead. For a while I had envisioned that the store house of information that is the world wide web and ever increaingly efficient seach engines would render your privicy null one you sent foot into the internet. I had not realized that it would only take a few years from realization to auctualization. The proof came last week, when I heard that a radio commentator said the alleged rape victem of Kobe Bryant's name on the air. I wondered if I could find it using google.

Check out:

www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/opinion/25GIBS.html

In a NYTimes op/ed piece, William Gibson writes about and updates Orwell's vison of privicy in "1984".