Ed Felton discusses issues of privacy, price discrimination, and identification related to Disney World's reported use of fingerprinting (some say its only finger/hand geometry) to make sure people aren't selling their multi-day passes to third parties. Prof. Felton questions whether…
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Bruce Schneier points to this Wired piece on an MIT student's research project where he handed out specially-equipped cellphones as a way to document the lives of students and employees of MIT. From the article: Eagle's Reality Mining project logged…
[from the EFF]Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias,"…
I've returned from the CEPE and SPT conferences in The Netherlands motivated to increase my advocacy for the "values in design" perspective for understanding the social, political and ethical implications of technology. At CEPE, the theme was "Ethics of New…
I am on my way to The Netherlands to particpate in two exciting conferences. I will be presenting my paper "Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies" [PDF] at the International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry.…
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Technology Review just doesn't understand the complex relationship between technology and society. I've been a reader of MIT's flagship magazine for a few years now, and have had mixed feelings about its contents. At times, they've provided thoughtful insights into…
Beth Noveck of New York Law School argues for the development of a deliberative interface to "translate theoretical ideals about the goals of deliberation into...new media to enable individuals to participate in new and more effective social groups." She presents…
Wired News reports that David Clark is beginning work (within academia and with the help of the NSF) on a new "clean slate" internet architecture:Clark, who served as chief protocol architect for the government's internet development initiative in the 1980s,…
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