March 14, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

CFP2006: Life, Liberty and Digital Rights

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 14, 2006in Events, Privacy, Values In Design

The website for the the Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy has been launched. The theme for this year's CFP is Life, Liberty and Digital Rights. From the page:Now, more than ever, the lines of technology, freedom, and privacy…

Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 14, 2006in Internet, Privacy, Social Media1 Comment

Today's Colloquium on Information Technology & Society at NYU Law School featured talk by Jonathan Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on recent developments in facial recognition technologies and algorithms. Some of the results suggested that…

Podcast discussing my work

Posted by Michael Zimmeron March 14, 2006in Mobility, Privacy, Search Engines, Values In Design2 Comments

We're lucky to have Anders Albrechtslund visiting the Dept of Culture & Communication for the next week. Anders is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is engaged in research on surveillance…