Chapter 6. Privacy Is Invaded

  • Privacy is the right to be left alone

  • Privacy is fundamental to individuality

  • Any of us can get any amount of information about anyone

The virtual world is frighteningly amenable to unethical and illegal practices. A few years ago, one of our close friends, a very smart and astute retired professor of management at the University of California, had his identity stolen. That's the ultimate violation of a person's privacy, of the integrity of his or her being. And that theft is not hard to do.

We once bought a marvelously exciting, award-winning, extremely modern house, which we were eager to move into, but we postponed the move until the school year was over. The absolute emptiness of the new house bothered us. We needed ...

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