Articles in the Dataveillance Category
China, Dataveillance, Google, Online Privacy »
Google has finally made the complete transformation. They are no longer some kind of benevolent, altruistic company trying to help people learn and grow by providing access to knowledge online. Now, they’re just one of many .com companies trying to build some software applications and make a buck.
Here’s the story as I see it.
Google started as project by a couple of PhD students who thought searching for information online could be better. They built their tool, and proclaimed in the paper announcing their innovation that advertising has no place in …
Dataveillance, Privacy »
The rise of fast processors and cheap storage means that remembering, once incredibly difficult for humans, has become simple through technology. In a faculty research working paper called “Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing (PDF),” Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a professor in Harvard’s JFK School of Government, argues that this shift has been bad for society, and he calls instead for a new era of “forgetfulness,” where “the default of forgetting our societies have experienced for millennia.”
From the paper’s abstract:
As humans we have the capacity to …
Dataveillance, Google »
With their recent push to get the citizens of Planet Google to start using Google Checkout, Google’s growing infrastructure of dataveillance now includes purchasing data. From Google Checkout’s privacy policy:
Registration information – When you sign up for Google Checkout, we ask for your personal information so that we can provide you with the service. The information we require to register for the service includes your name, credit or debit card number, card expiration date, card verification number (CVN), address, phone number, and email address. For sellers, we also require you …
Conferences, Dataveillance, Google, NCA, Online Privacy, Search Engines, Surveillance »
Blogging has been light (again), as I’ve been preparing for my final conference trip. This time, I’m in San Antonio, TX for the 92nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. I’m presenting on an amazing panel titled “Visualizing Security: Digitizing Surveillance and the Body” with Shoshana Magnet (Institute of Communciations Research, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Kelly Gates (Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY), and Rachel Hall (Communication Studies, Louisiana State University).
My paper is on Google as an infrastructure of dataveillance, a draft of which can be downloaded here (PDF). Below is the …
