I will be attending the "Countours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives" conference in Ottawa this weekend, sponsored by Members of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research group, "On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance…
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NYU's Department of Culture & Communication (my department) is holding its annual Graduate Student Conference on November 11, 2005, where I will be on a panel on Google: Don't Be Evil: Political, Culture and Ethical Aspects of Google Google has…
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The Yale Information Society Project is hosting a symposium on "Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy": Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is…
Here is an interesting story about how a supermarket loyalty program's database was used to help track a person's location.Person 1 loses a valuable watch in a supermarket. Person 2 finds it and, instead of returning it as required by…
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Maryland will reportedly spend $183 million to make changes to the EZ Pass electronic toll collection system. Under the system, toll booths would be replaced by overpasses under which motorists could drive without slowing down. Sensors would deduct tolls from…
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Search Engine Journal reports that Google recently filed two patents dealing with ad targeting based on user search history behavior and personalization in what seems an attempt to leverage their Gmail/personal search/toolbar data, reminding us that all those free tools…
Wired has launched a new column called "The Luddite", written by Tony Long. To get a sense of his (needed) perspective, here's an excerpt from his first column, "Dark Underbelly of Technology":[...] the reason for this column: to lend a…
Indian president Abdul Kalam has expressed concern over the potential use of satellite image and mapping software - such as Google Earth - by terrorists:At a meeting Saturday of top police officials in Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that "developing…
Google announced an update of their privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy (October 14, 2005)Google Privacy Policy (July 1, 2004) Aaron Swartz's useful web-based HTML Diff web-based program also offers a comparison of the old and the new and is available…
Randy Siegel in the New York Times speculates on what the Google homepage might look like in the far future (it allows you to search not only the web, but friends, family, ex-spouses, tax records, music, your future, and other…
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