There has been a lot of movemnet recently regarding how search engines treat the vast amounts of user data they collect. In early 2007, Google announced it would "anonymize" its user search logs after 18-24 months. Later that year, Google…
Month: December 2008
Blacklisting Wikipedia to Prevent Spread of Child Porn Increases Spread of Child Porn
File this under "duh" - via Wired Threat Level: Wikipedia's functionality was returning to normal Tuesday after an internet watchdog group removed the online encyclopedia from a child porn watchlist. The brouhaha began Saturday, when the England-based Internet Watch Foundation…
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“Should we be scared?”: Privacy & technology (WUWM “Lake Effect”)
I recently taped an interview with Milwaukee's public radio affiliate, WUWM, and it aired today. The topic was privacy and technology, focusing mostly on how to balance the speed and ubiquity of new technology, the conveniences they provide, and the…
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YouTube: “Broadcast Yourself” means broadcasting your viewing interests for all to see
The NY Times reports that when you subscribe to a channel on YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing site publicly broadcasts this fact by putting your user information on that channel's page for anyone to see: Google’s video site lets you…
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CFP: Performance, New Media, and Surveillance
If you share my appreciation for the ctrl[space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance exhibit and book, linking surveillance, theory, and art, you might be interested in this call for papers for a special issue of Surveillance & Society on "Performance, New Media,…
Even in the Situation Room, the Medium is the Message
Buried within this NY Times post about how some Clinton administration verterans on Obama's transition team are surprised at some of the changes within the White House is an interesting discussion about how the reliance on real-time video links between…
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