Archive for the 'Dataveillance' Category
Google Now Just Another .Com Business
Friday, May 11th, 2007Google 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 […]
Escaping the Data Panopticon: Computers should “Forget”
Thursday, May 10th, 2007The 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 […]
Google Now Gets Purchasing Data, Too
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006With 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 […]
The Disciplinary Gaze of Web Search Engines
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Blogging 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 […]




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