In “Digital Secrets” I explore the privacy issues confronting all of us as our most private information ends up stored somewhere in “The Cloud”. Often without our knowledge. The minutest occurrences in our lives are being digitized. Where we are at any moment on the planet is recorded somewhere, what we eat, what we buy, where we jog, how far, how fast. The Internet knows who are our friends and who aren’t.
Is this “harmless” and not particularly secret information on your phone really harmless if it can be used against you in some way?
In “Digital Secrets” a serial murderer is taunting the police, daring them to catch him as he murders seemingly at will. His greatest ally to help him in planning his murders is the digital world. Without a pattern to his murders, it appears the police and FBI are powerless to stop him.
As the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Steven Westcott is trying to find out who is watching the watchers. The United States has sixteen various intelligence agencies not counting the FBI. Steven’s committee is charged with oversight of those agencies. But the more he probes the more he realizes that it is impossible to have oversight on activities you don’t know about.
Steven becomes convinced that the intelligence community doesn’t want the legislative branch to know the degree to which it is spying on average citizens. Soon the intelligence community senses that Senator Westcott is a danger to their plans and move to silence him. At the same time, Steven’s detective friend, Jojo is hot on the trail of the serial killer, a man that could hold the answers to all of Steven’s questions about the watchers.