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View More News“Mom, why did he take your picture?” my preschooler asked. We were making our way through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint for a family trip. “It’s to compare my face with the picture in the computer,” I said. “They want to make sure I am who I say I am.” As we put our bags on the conveyor belt to be X-rayed, I received another question. “Mom—what’s that big machine?” “A body scanner. It’s supposed to find things under people’s clothes.” “Can it see my privates?!” “No,” I hesitated. Contemporary scanners do not capture such details, but TSA agents may use…
One of the most prescient lines from George Orwell’s 1984 the 1949 dystopian classic about Big Brother, regards that fictional society’s endless surveillance: “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” Modern Americans’ instinct is to post their every thought and photo on social media, but we still should be wary of the way new technologies track and monitor us throughout our day. Some of this Brave New World tech is unavoidable and mostly benign. The website cookies that require our consent…
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