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How can a communication system serve a democratic society if it is not fully transparent to the user?

With HTML and the advent of the WWW, layers of information were added to documents that remain hidden from the user’s view. Unbeknownst to the user, they can contain, carry, and transmit information that can incriminate or divulge the user beyond any level that a reasonably responsible person can be aware of. The new standard Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), virtually allows to transmit our entire medical record within a single IP address sent back to a website.

Is such a system not determined to falter once society realizes its perils?

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Can we protect our privacy on the Web?

In their book The Spy in the Coffee Machine, Nigel Shadbolt and Kieron O’Hara address the issue of our increasing loss of control over our private information on the Web. Can we really protect our privacy, or is the Web inherently in opposition to that ideal?

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