A world without secretsBy Dan FarberMay 2, 2002 Today, few legal restrictions exist on the collection and use of private information, outside of the health care and financial services industries. In his book, entitled "World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing" (Wiley, $27.95), Hunter posits that advances over the next decade in high bandwidth wireless communications, intelligent miniaturized monitors, semantic analysis, and natural language processing will render our lives and institutions transparent and subject to who knows what kind of scrutiny--depending on who wields the power or can parse the petabytes of data. Trust...