If a company has information stored about you, do you have any rights? Does that company have the right to own the information about you? If they do own that information what rights do you have? What are the implications of that information being owned?
If a company has information about you does it mean that they have the right to sell that information? Who buys it? How else can that information be used?
How would you feel if you were walking past a billboard that spoke to you by name and knew very personal and private information which it spouted out about in an advertising campaign with other people around? Should they have the right to do this. Frighteningly this technology which was first showcased in the Tom Cruise movie, "Minority Report" is real and was planned on being used here beginning 2004. It did not happen for some reason. At this stage the biotechnology. iris scanning and retina scanning does not have the database with personal prints of people's retina's and iris' to make it work but the rest of it is there. There are already large databases on most people. That information is already sold to companies who specifically may knock on your door to sell you goods knowing full well that you have already purchased a particular product in the past. Companies will already phone an individual at home to sell a product, knowing that person's name, address and a variety of other personal information. This is normally done by a customer service offiver or sales representative at a call centre in India or elsewhere, meaning that your personal information has been given to a range of other companies across thge globe.
Tim Berner's-Lee, the founder of the internet, was quoted as saying, "privacy is a thing of the past, get over it." Do you agree with this? Why would he say this? Should this be the case.