ns have been fighting against governmental incursions on privacy, the private sector has been making steady inroads. Consumers, employees, even patients and children have little protection from marketeers, insurance companies, bankers, and corporate surveillance. Additionally, as the Supreme Court has given greater leniency to law enforcement officials in recent decisions our personal privacy may gradually be coming to an end. A 1996 Harris/Equifax poll found that 80% of Americans were somewhat or very concerned about threats to personal privacy while a 1997 Harris-Westin poll found that 92% of Americans were concerned about threats to their personal privacy. (Etzioni, p. 6 - 10)
             Indeed, as Carl Micham, professor of philosophy and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Penn State University, noted in The World and I on March 3, 1996,
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