Synopsis
Looks at how, when you surf the net or use a credit card, you leave a data trail as revealing as an animal’s spoor, comprising your tastes in everything from soap to sexual partners.
- Programme: The History Of Surveillance
- Episode: 04: The Watchful Web
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2001
- Psychology
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