| Sumario: | The article discusses about the sort of culture that computers and the network are creating. Computers and the network have become a tool for monitoring the lives of private individuals. The tool itself is not cause for concern; what is more worrisome is the ideology of those who wield the tool. Electronic business, whether business-to-business or business-to-consumer, cannot be conducted these days without databases. People who compile and use databases can abstract original data, that is, simple basic facts, from whatever specific thing they are interested in. Their greatest concern is how to typify an individual using data. The role of databases is to abstract people's lives as a string of basic unadorned pieces of information, upon which business and legal decisions are based.
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