About the book: 2004 / What results can the use of achievements in the field of high technology lead to in relation to our private lives in the very near future? How can we protect our privacy and independence in the face of uncontrolled use of the latest advances in this field? This problem is all the more pressing because even the United States, the freest democracy in the world, risks turning into a state of universal accounting and total control before our eyes. The book by the talented publicist and famous computer technology specialist Simeon Garfinkel is an analysis of the ways in which an invasion can be carried out into privacy, and ways in which we can resist it.