You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?
Propelled by new technologies and the Internet’s steady incursion into every nook and cranny of life, collective intelligence offers powerful capabilities, from improving the efficiency of advertising to giving community groups new ways to organize.
But even its practitioners acknowledge that, if misused, collective intelligence tools could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.
Sense has developed two applications, one for consumers to use on smartphones
like the BlackBerry and the iPhone, and the other for companies interested in
forecasting social trends and financial behavior
There is a whole new set of metrics that no one has ever measured
individual privacy rights must also be weighed against the public good
If I could have looked at the cellphone records, it could have been stopped that
morning rather than a couple of weeks later
moving picture of interaction in a dorm
clipped from: www.nytimes.com 
