Privacy and Counter-Terrorism: The Pervasiveness of Data (Somebody's Watching Me: Surveillance and Privacy in an Age of National Insecurity‪)‬

Computing power and data storage capacity are increasing at an exponential pace. We can now envision systems that will create individual dossiers based upon the electronic trail you leave behind in cyberspace. This sort of "dataveillance" will allow the government to scrutinize the conduct of individuals and holds great promise for preventing terrorist acts. But these techniques also hold great peril as they may foster and permit governmental abuse of privacy and civil liberties. Our current data privacy laws are outdated and do not take account of these technological changes. They need to be updated. I. INTRODUCTION