Articles in the Siva Vaidhyanathan Category
Facial recognition, Google, Microsoft, Online Privacy, Privacy, Search Engines, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Surveillance, iphone »
I’ve been ridiculously busy lately, and need to quickly catch up on some recent items of note:
Scientific American has a nice special issue dedicated to “the future of privacy.” Nothing new here for most privacy scholars, but it is a nice treatment of the issues that is approachable to those who don’t spend every breathing moment thinking about privacy and surveillance theory. (Also very good for undergraduate courses!)
Colorado Law School professor Paul Ohm has released an important new article on “The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance,” where he …
Dan Solove, Google, Personalized Search, Privacy, Search Engines, Search privacy, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Street View, Yahoo »
I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and need to quickly catch up on some recent items of note:
Siva Vaidhyanathan has launched a new blog for his forthcoming book, “The Googlization of Everything“…
…while Cory Doctorow provides his fictional vision of Google at its most evil extreme, working with Homeland Security to monitor and track citizens. My favorite passage: “In the grand scheme of things, it hadn’t cost Google much to wire the city with webcams. Especially when measured against the ability to serve ads to people based on where they were sitting.”
Speaking …
Blogging, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Technology & Society, Web 2.0 »
Siva Vaidhyanathan says “no thanks” to Time magazine naming “you” Person of the Year. From his essay on MSNBC.com:
… Well, thank you, Time, for hyping me, overvaluing me, using me to sell my image back to me, profiling me, flattering me, and failing to pay me. As soon as I saw myself on my local newsstand, I had to buy a copy of Time.
Notice that Time framed the Person of the Year as “you.” That should sound familiar. Almost every major marketing campaign these days is about empowering “you.”
“You” have …
