Yesterday, I listenined to NPR : O'Harrow's 'No Place to Hide' from Surveillance:

Robert O'Harrow, Jr. is a reporter for The Washington Post and an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. His new book is about how the government is creating a national intelligence infrastructure with the help of private companies as part of homeland security. Huge data-mining operations are contracted by the government to gather information on our daily lives. Information technology has enabled retailers, marketers, and financial institutions to gather and store data about us. O'Harrow's new book about this security-industrial complex is No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society.

In response to the scary stuff I heard, I'd like to learn more about David Brin and his book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?. He wrote Salon.com Technology | Three cheers for the Surveillance Society!. See also Wired 4.12: The Transparent Society.