Archive for the 'Privacy in Public' Category
How Google Blew It with Street View
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007As I just mentioned, Google recently announced plans to blur or otherwise obscure people’s faces in the Canadian version of the Street View product. After a brief conversation with my colleague Chris Hoofnagle, I’ve come to realize that in their launch of Street View, Google blew a chance to really take a leadership role in […]
Following up on Google Street View
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007There continues to be quite a bit of buzz and concern about Google’s “Street View” enhancement for Google Maps. A couple of comments on recent developments:
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I don’t want to be picky, but given all the (necessary) attention given to the privacy aspects of Street View, I still wonder where everyone was when Microsoft launched […]
Google’s “Street View” and Privacy in Public
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007About 6 months ago Microsoft launched their Windows Live Local Virtual Earth service, providing street level images of San Francisco and Seattle. You can drive or walk around the map and view the streets and storefronts…and the people. This detailed level of mapping carries significant concerns about one’s privacy in public, which I pointed […]
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 […]
All Eyes On You: Cellphone cameras & cyber-shaming
Sunday, March 4th, 2007The Montreal Gazette has a feature story on how the combination of cellphone cameras and the World Wide Web has resulting in the rise of “cyber-shaming” - a new kind of public shaming for wrongdoers, from litterbugs and bad drivers to negligent nannies:
Hey you, the scofflaw parked illegally in the handicapped spot. Smile! You’re in […]
Judge Restricts New York Police Surveillance of Public Spaces
Thursday, February 15th, 2007A federal judge ruled that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings. Reversing (and clarifying) an earlier ruling, the judge stated that such public surveillance is allowable only if there was an indication that unlawful activity may occur. From the NYTimes report:
Four years ago, at the request of the city, […]
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