A new report by the Center for Democracy & Technology details a widening gap between the technology that collects sensitive personal data and the laws designed to protect that data against government misuse. The National Security Agency's domestic spying program,…
Month: March 2006
Panoptic sorting…with a twist of lime
In his disucssion of the rise of everyday surveillance, Oscar Gandy describes systems that enable "panoptic sorting," discriminatory technologies which surveil all information about an individual’s status and behavior to use in the profiling and categorization of a person’s potential…
John Sexton’s Wikipedia Article
I was quoted in today's Washington Square News about recent edits to NYU President John Sexton's article on Wikipedia. Since the recent labor disupte with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, various additions were made to Sexton's page that, IMO, violated…
Google moving search records out of China
At Monday's panel on “The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines”, Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, stated that Google is moving the databases they keep of Chinese searches outside of the country in order to prevent China's government from…
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