The latest issue of Scientific American magazine is all about technology and privacy. Included in the issue:

• Katherine Albrecht, How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People
• Steven Ashley, Digital Surveillance: Tools of the Spy Trade
• Peter Brown, Privacy in an Age of Terabytes and Terror
• Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping
• Esther Dyson, How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security
• Simson L. Garfinkel, Data Fusion: The Ups and Downs of All-Encompassing Digital Profiles
• Anil K. Jain and Sharath Pankanti, Beyond Fingerprinting: Is Biometrics the Best Bet for Fighting Identity Theft?
• Anna Lysyanskaya, Cryptography: How to Keep Your Secrets Safe
• Mark A. Rothstein, Tougher Laws Needed to Protect Your Genetic Privacy
• Dan Solove, Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?

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