Gregory J.E. Rawlins

In dozens of ways every day, people create electronic files about themselves. Author Gregory J.E. Rawlins notes that bank and credit card transactions, visits to doctors' offices, insurance claims, and income tax filings are just a few of the ways in which people unwittingly funnel personal data into computer networks. Rawlins, an associate professor of computer science at Indiana University, says we live in a world driven by information, where the gathering and selling of facts about others has become a big business. Because of this troublesome and widespread sharing of computerized information, he believes people are losing control of their privacy.