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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

How Urban Anonymity Disappears When All Data Is Tracked:

Cities are our paradises of anonymity, a place for both self-erasure and self-reinvention. But soon, cities may fall first in the disappearance, or at least a radical remaking, of privacy. Information about our innocuous public acts is denser in urban areas, and can now be cheaply aggregated. Cameras and sensors, increasingly common in the urban landscape, pick up all sorts of behaviors. These are stored and categorized to draw personal conclusions — all of it, thanks to cheap electronics and cloud computing, for affordable sums.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/19/how-urban -anonymity-disappears-when-all-data-is-tracked/ [nytimes.com]

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