Archive for the 'Identity' Category
Ethics, Technology and Identity
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Speaking of my colleague Noëmi Manders-Huits, she is organizing an amazing looking conference on Ethics, Technology and Identity in Delft this June:
Information technology plays an increasingly important role in society and in human lives. Identity Management Technologies (e.g. biometrics, profiling, surveillance), in combination with a variety of identification procedures and personalized services are ubiquitous and […]
Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007[This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project’s blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz]
This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts on how the rise of so-called Web 2.0 technologies bear on privacy and surveillance studies. After […]
IINW in First Monday
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006I am pleased to announce that selected papers from the “Identity and Identification in a Networked World” graduate student symposium held at New York University in September have been published in a special issue of First Monday. Here are titles and abstracts:
Identity and Identification in a Networked World
by Tim Schneider and Michael Zimmer
Summary of events […]
Bendrath on the Politics of “Identity Governance”
Monday, December 4th, 2006Ralf Bendrath has a thoughtful post on Oracle’s recently announced “Identity Governance Framework”, a set of draft standards for sharing and controlling personally identifiable information across different systems and applications. He was particularly struck by the use of the term “governance” in this context, and how it reflects a changing discourse on privacy & identity […]
7 Laws for Privacy-Embedded Internet Identity
Saturday, October 21st, 2006Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has released a whitepaper augmenting Kim Cameron’s seven laws of identity with privacy protections: 7 Laws of Identity: The Case for Privacy-Embedded Laws of Identity in the Digital Age (PDF). I’m busy travelling, so I can’t print and read the entire document right now, but here […]
Registration Open: Identity and Identification in a Networked World
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Registration is now open for the “Identity and Identification in a Networked World” multidisciplinary graduate student symposium, September 29-30, 2006 at the NYU School of Law. Twenty graduate students from across North America and Europe will share their exciting research on the social, cultural, philosophical, legal and technical perspectives of systems of identity, identifiability and […]
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