Archive for the 'Surveillance' Category
CFP: Performance, New Media, and Surveillance
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008If you share my appreciation for the ctrl[space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance exhibit and book, linking surveillance, theory, and art, you might be interested in this call for papers for a special issue of Surveillance & Society on “Performance, New Media, and Surveillance”:
Special Issue of Surveillance & Society | www.surveillance-and-society.org
Performance, New Media, and Surveillance | guest [...]
Commentary for the “Eagle Eye” DVD
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008UW-Milwaukee has issued a nice press release regarding my contribution to the DVD bonus material for the action/thriller movie “Eagle Eye,” which features sophisticated surveillance technologies as one of its plot devices.
The closing paragraph pretty much sums up where we are on the project:
At this point, with “Eagle Eye” flying high at the box office, [...]
Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008The Information Warfare Monitor, a joint project of the Advanced Network Research Group, part of the Cambridge Security Programme, The SecDev Group and the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, has released major investigative report, Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security [...]
Technologies of Obfuscation and Resistance
Sunday, September 14th, 2008During my studies in privacy and surveillance theory, I’ve gained an interest in technologies of obfuscation and resistance. Especially simple ones that nearly any average citizen can implement.
TrackMeNot is a great example: a simple Firefox extension that periodically issues randomized search queries to popular search engines, thereby hiding users’ actual search trails in a cloud [...]
Catching Up - Link Dump
Sunday, September 14th, 2008I’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 [...]
Seeking References on Cellphone Surveillance
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008This post is a bleg:
I’ve been asked to film an interview that will accompany the DVD bonus material for the forthcoming (Steven Spielberg produced) action/thriller movie “Eagle Eye,” which features sophisticated surveillance technologies as one of its plot devices. The topic for the interview will be cellphone surveillance.
I’ve discussed the topic on occassion here, but [...]
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