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    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 […]

    Another Court Ruling on GPS Tracking without Warrant

    Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

    Two years ago I blogged about a very chilling precedent from an upstate New York federal judge who ruled that police can secretly attach Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to a suspect’s vehicle without a warrant, stating that suspects had “no expectation of privacy in the whereabouts of his vehicle on a public roadway.” Seems […]

    TrackStick: Amateur Surveillance

    Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

    I just received a (spam) e-mail asking me if I’m interested in becoming a reseller of the TrackStick or TrackStick Pro. Um, no.
    TrackStick is a GPS tracking device featuring software integrated with Google Maps to enable tracking of oneself (I suppose) and amateur surveillance of others (more likely). The device records its location, time, date, […]

    NYT on Cellphone Surveillance

    Thursday, December 21st, 2006

    The NY Times has a feature today on the prevalence of GPS-enabled cell phones for the surveillance of one’s kids. (Boost Mobile [page has audio] has also been pitching their GPS tracking features to adults so you can “know where your friends are at.”)
    Unfortunately I’m much too busy writing the diss to provide any nuanced […]

    Tracking Devices on Milwaukee Police Cars Blocked

    Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

    GPS systems installed on Milwaukee Police squad cars to help dispatchers track officers’ whereabouts have recently been found covered with foil, rendering them useless and the cars invisible to monitoring. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
    A Milwaukee police captain was walking through the District 7 garage over the summer when he noticed something wasn’t right about […]

    In Love with Geotagging

    Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

    The New York Times recently extolled the virtues of using GPS in digital cameras and camera cellphones to “geotag” photos with the location at which they were taken:
    …advocates of geotagging, like Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr, contend that linking pictures to maps can lend a new dimension to photography. For one […]


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