The Scientific American is giving special coverage of privacy in its September 2008 issue. Among the articl;es in the issue are the following:

• Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau: Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping,
• Katherine Albrecht: How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People,
• Simson L. Garfinkel: Data Fusion: The Ups and Downs of All-Encompassing Digital Profiles,
• Daniel J. Solove: Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?, and
• Esther Dyson: How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security.

If you can, take a look at the print edition. The print edition has some informative graphics that weren't quite duplicated on the Web.

J.D. Abolins