In the September 2008 Issue:
The Future of Privacy
• Internet-Age Wiretapping
• Cryptography for Keeping Secrets
• You Are Tagged: RFID Chips
• Beyond Fingerprints: Biometric I.D.
• Privacy in a Facebook Age
• Defending Genetic Confidentiality
• Bug-Bots and Other Spy Gadgets
On Sale

• Featured articles:

• Drowning New Orleans; October 2001; by Mark Fischetti

• The Future of Stem Cells; July 2005; by Clive Cookson, John Rennie, Christine Soares, Richard Gardner, Tim Watson, Patti Waldmeir, Gary Stix

• 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense; July 2002; by John Rennie

• Misleading Math about the Earth; January 2002; by Stephen Schneider, John P. Holdren, John Bongaarts and Thomas Lovejoy. Introduction by John Rennie