Electronic Frontier: The privacy hoax

Privacy in the digital age is dead. At best, one of our most cherished rights as members of a free society is on life support, kept alive by cybercratic ramblings of an electronic fringe unable to come to grips with reality. In a police lineup of the usual suspects fingered as the biggest privacy abusers, the government is an easy mark. Too easy. No, the biggest abuse of privacy is in the workplace, followed closely by the ordinary Joes and Janes of our global village. These privacy assassins wield what is, ironically, the one truly “killer app,” of the information age—email. I should know. I’m a privacy abuser.