"This is a chilling compendium of the myriad
methods government and industry
have devised to catalog and profile the preferences of American citizens. It
is an essential handbook in the fight against the insidious erosion of a
right so dear that freedom itself depends on it."
The Hon. Edward J. Markey
U.S. House of Representatives |
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"Database
Nation marks a turning point in the national debate over the future of
privacy. Here is the clearest accounting to date of the challenges we
face and the steps we must take to preserve the most valued of personal
freedoms."
Marc Rotenberg
Electronic Privacy Information Center |
"Database Nation by Simson Garfinkel is a graphic and blistering
indictment of the burgeoning technologies used by business, government, and
others to invade the self - yourselves - and restrict both your freedom to
participate in power and your freedom from abuses of power. The right of
privacy is a constitutionally protected right, and its erosion or destruction
undermines
democratic society as it generate, in one circumstance after another, a new kind
of serfdom. This book is one that you're entitled to take very personally."
Ralph Nader
Consumer Advocate |
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"Simson has captured the depth and
breadth of our ever-increasing privacy problems, demonstrating their insidious
nature and the extreme difficulties that they present for all of us. This book
is hugely important. It should be read by everyone. Wonderfully readable. Five
stars.
Peter G. Neumann
Principal Scientist, SRI-CRL
Author, Inside Risks
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"Garfinkel has
written both a comprehensive survey of threats to privacy in an
electronic age and a sometimes subversive manifesto for how citizens can
fight back to protect their human dignity. He has a humanist’s
perspective on what constitutes civilized living, a lawyer’s
understanding of the potential as well as the limits of the law, and a
revolutionary’s sense for how to threaten the power structure to cease
and desist. A bravura performance that is bound to be the subject of
controversy, not to mention some nervousness on the part of those who
don’t understand that we humans own much of the information that makes
us unique."
Harvey A.
Silverglate
Attorney, Boston
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