Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups ar…
History of Mme. la marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV. n6e Poisson, wife of M. le Normand d'Etioles. — Binet, a relative of hers, procures her for the king. — Uneasiness of Boyer and of the pious party. — Two parties were produced at the court, that of the favorites and that of the dauphin. — Their reciprocal views and interests. — Portrait of M. d'Etioles, husband of the fav…