September 17, 2007 – MichaelZimmer.org

ACLU Sets “Surveillance Clock”

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 17, 2007in Privacy

The ACLU launched the “Surveillance Society Clock” to symbolize how we are fast approaching a surveillance society in the United States. The clock is set at six minutes before the “midnight” of such a dark end to privacy: The reality…

Bill McGeveran on Facebook, Context, and Privacy

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 17, 2007in Privacy, Social Media, Values In Design3 Comments

William McGeveran, a professor at University of Minnesota Law School, points to this troubling story about a Florida State professor who made each student read aloud his/her Facebook profie, which noted how "the girls [sic] whose hobby was “being slutty”…

ISP Lunch Speaker Series

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 17, 2007in Events, Information Ethics, Information Law & Policy, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

One of my duties at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School has been to organize our weekly lunch speaker series. Last week we welcomed Samir Chopra, a philosopher who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer…