Even the difference between TV and Internet are going to disappear in some point; many companies like Comcast or AT&T are offering many choices where everything is going digital. Technological speaking this digital world will allow to know exactly what we see (TV or Internet), who we talk to (voice or written communications), what we talk, who we know (on-line communities), what we do (our own agendas are some where in the web) at the point that some body having access to that data almost can infers what we think.

It sounds scary but it is a reality; last year an article in blog.wired.com called the attention (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/att-invents-pro.html) about a programming language invented by AT&T for Mass Surveillance originally intended for “marketing” research but actually useful for effective surveillance intelligence.

Well the omnipresent digital technology is already everywhere and we are adopting at a very fast pace. Now the question is how fast and how appropriately our legislators around the nation (an the globe) would be able to assimilate this new reality and adjust our state and federal legislations to protect our fundamental principals of freedom, democracy and privacy.

This New Jersey Court ruling is a late call in the sense that something must be done about privacy in this digital age, let’s hope to see more efforts in this field sooner than later.