Discussions of online privacy, privacy in public, intellectual privacy, digital surveillance, and the theory of privacy as “contextual integrity”.
Continuing the theme of libraries, privacy, and intellectual freedom from a few weeks ago, two items popped up in my blogroll today: Wired's Threat Level tells an incredible story about the plight of two Connecticut librarians who received national security…
Read More A Bit More on Libraries, Privacy, and Intellectual Freedom
Seth Finkelstein has a thoughtful piece on Google and privacy in the Guardian, which includes this insight: The lack of substantive knowledge about Google's actions, combined with general concerns regarding how its logs could be abused, makes it difficult to…
There continues to be quite a bit of buzz and concern about Google's “Street View” enhancement for Google Maps. A couple of comments on recent developments: ::: I don't want to be picky, but given all the (necessary) attention given…
Related to my earlier mention of the challenges of relying on Panoptic theory to talk about surveillance, Anders Albrechtslund has posted an informal taxonomy of "21 perspectives on surveillance": The Big Brother perspective Surveillance is a scary way for the…
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar hosted by the Surveillance Project at Queens University. The seminar was led by world-class surveillance studies experts: David Lyon, Kevin Haggerty, and Kirstie Ball. About twenty graduate…
I'm back from a celebratory break and a week at the Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar (will blog about that shorty), and need to quickly catch up on some items from my blogroll: NYU's loss is UVA's gain: Siva Vaidhyanathan has…
I've been on vacation the past week, and am now in attendance at the Surveillance Seminar run by David Lyon at Queens University, so I've been offline a bit and out of touch of many recent important events regarding Google…
I'm supposed to be on vacation this week, but felt compelled to blog about this... There has been increased attention lately about Google's data retention policies and the impact its drive towards personalization might have on user privacy. In response,…
Read More Google’s Peter Fleischer is Dangerously Misleading on Privacy and Personalized Search
I’m pleased to announce that I have successfully defended my dissertation, “The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility.” Thanks to everyone for their help and support. (blogging…
Wired has posted the results of their survey of the major ISPs regarding their tracking and data retention policies. I've created a table summarizing the results: How long do you retain records of the IP addresses assigned to customers? Do…
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