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Avoiding The Tentacles of "Technocreep"

Greystone Books

Here's a question that is getting rarer in today's world: "how did you know my name?" 

In the age of Facebook and Google, we can find out lots of things about lots of people.  Oh, and they can do the same to us. 

Cyber expert Thomas Keenan helped write Canada's computer crime laws decades ago; he writes about how far things have come in his book Technocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy

We pick his brain, but in a friendly way.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.