... with Gene Spafford) Database Nation The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century Simson Garfinkel Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Paris • Sebastopol • Taipei • Tokyo Database Nation: The Death... control or regulate, the threats to this freedom that we face today Chapter Two Database Nation WASHINGTON, DC, 1965 The Bureau of the Budget's proposal was simple yet revolutionary Instead of... benefits Accurate statistics could be created quickly and precisely from the nation' s data By building a single national database, the government could track down and stamp out the misspelled names