June 20, 2007 – MichaelZimmer.org

Following up on Google Street View

Posted by Michael Zimmeron June 20, 2007in Privacy, Search Engines2 Comments

There continues to be quite a bit of buzz and concern about Google's “Street View” enhancement for Google Maps. A couple of comments on recent developments: ::: I don't want to be picky, but given all the (necessary) attention given…

Perspectives on Surveillance

Posted by Michael Zimmeron June 20, 2007in Privacy

Related to my earlier mention of the challenges of relying on Panoptic theory to talk about surveillance, Anders Albrechtslund has posted an informal taxonomy of "21 perspectives on surveillance": The Big Brother perspective Surveillance is a scary way for the…