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    Privacy Most Public
    Privacy Most Public
    Privacy Most Public
    Ebook61 pages58 minutes

    Privacy Most Public

    By Andrew Burt

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    In the future, the Minuteman software system listens to all phone calls, reads all messages, watches everything, to keep Americans safe... but what happens when it mis-hears what someone says? Who's watching the watchers?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Burt
    Release dateMay 4, 2010
    ISBN9781452393445
    Privacy Most Public
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    Andrew Burt

    Dr. Andrew Burt (www.aburt.com) has lots of published science fiction and is a former Vice President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. He's been a computer science professor (specializing in AI, networking, security, privacy, and social issues); founder of Nyx.net, the world's first free internet service provider; CEO of custom software developer TechSoft, and a technology consultant/author/speaker. For a hobby, he constructs solutions to the world's problems. Fortunately, nobody listens.

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