The NYTimes reports on what they seem present as a new effort to "add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide — and even…
Month: November 2006
Intel Drafts Privacy License for Mobile Device Software
On the heels of Microsoft's recent release of privacy guidelines for software developers, here's an excellent example of another company working with privacy scholars to try to protect end-user privacy when using location-based mobile devices. From ComptuerWorld: Intel Drafts Privacy…
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SEM on Search & Consumer Privacy
Gord Hotchkiss, the president of a search engine marketing firm, writes what at first appears to be a thoughtful and reflective essay on how the rise of behavioral targeting within the search engine advertising market (his bread and butter): The…
2006 Election’s Impact on Privacy & Surveillance
Wired details the potential impact the Democratic takeover of Congress will have on technology devopment, use and policy. Specific attention is paid to privacy and surveillance technologies: [I]t's unlikely that Democrats -- facing a presidential election in 2008 and fearful…
Google to Support User Data Portability?
In an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, Googel CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google would like users to be able to have portability with their search history data: Schmidt said he would like users to be able to export…
Discipline & Punish: The Game
I sat in on a fascinating panel on surveillance in MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting in Vancouver last week: DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE GAME ABSTRACT: This panel brings together…
Recovering…in Vancouver
Blogging has been light again lately as I've been recovering from my extended European tour (which included a terrible cold mid-way through, unhelped by Europe's restrictions on cold medication available over-the-counter). Here's a quick summary: I presented at the Social…
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