“During a week of attempting to cloak every aspect of daily life, our correspondent found that in an information age, leaving no trace is nearly impossible”

I saw this when I clicked on the link to PopSci from the Drupal.org announcement of the release of Drupal 6 (They had a list of sites using Drupal). It is a long, but good read. One thing that stood out to me was this:

“Banks sell lists of information that you’d think would be kept private-transaction histories, bank balances, where you’ve sent payments-and can continue to do so even if your account is closed.”

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