If you think that's prescient, take a look at the Privacy Protection Study Commission's Report to Congress twenty years before that in 1977: https://www.epic.o

If you think that's prescient, take a look at the Privacy Protection Study Commission's Report to Congress twenty years before that in 1977: https://www.epic.org/privacy/ppsc1977report/epilogue.pdf https://www.epic.org/privacy/ppsc1977report/epilogue.pdf https://www.epic.org/privacy/ppsc1977report/appendix5.pdf https://www.epic.org/privacy/ppsc1977report/appendix5.pdf Or Paul Baran's testimony to Congress in 1965: "The initial questions are those of examining the proposed central file system, considering its weak spots, and creating a precise description of those safeguards required that are technologically and economically feasible. If the gap is too great, then clearly we should not build the system; But as a practical matter--we should realize that eventual development is almost inevitable. We would do well to concentrate on the more constructive and larger issue of how shall we control the development of the automation of all sensitive information files in order to [...] protect the rights of the individual and avoid a “1984” nation? This may sound pessimistic, but if one can save money automating a data system it is only a matter of time until it happens. The only questions are: when and how? I would like to add the further distressing thought that we may already be well-along in the creation of the very system whose needs and dangers we are discussing today."