This documentary is 20 years old. I want to remake it.
A camera crew stood on a freeway overpass and picked a car license number at random. This documentary shows what they were able to learn in half a day by searching public records and spending $13: a dossier on two people they’d never met, containing the car owners’ names, where they live, their business and its financial status, their religion, the husband’s health problems, the names of their grandchildren, and the basic floor plan of their house. This program from 1993 examines the rise of the rapid exchange of vast amounts of information made possible by computers and bought and sold without the subjects’ knowledge or permission.
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