We've seem to have recently turned a corner where advanced surveillance & data mining technologies are now increasingly marketed to everyday people. Wired News reports on a new vehicle license plate scanning and tracking that is being pitched to more…
Category: Values In Design
Understanding how ethical values are embedded in technology, and working to ensure values are considered in technology design practices.
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant
I am pleased to announce that I have been awarded a Science & Society Dissertation Improvement Grant from the Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. This grant will support my dissertation research of the value…
Google – Behind the Screen
I just finished watching a new Dutch (for Australian TV) documentary called "Google - Behind the Screen". It provides a brief glimpse into the culture and technology behind Google, with interviews of Marissa Mayer, Vint Cerf and Google Earth and…
Schneier on Contextual Integrity
There is a nice conversation at Bruce Schneier's blog on Helen Nissenbaum's theory of "privacy as contextual integrity." (Full disclosure: Prof. Nissenbaum is my doctoral advisor). Some of the commentors struggle with a proper response to the common "If you…
Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies
For those readers interested in the intersections between privacy in public, locational privacy, contextual integrity, and vehicle technologies, my article "Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies" has been published in the journal Ethics and Information Technology…
Read More Surveillance, Privacy and the Ethics of Vehicle Safety Communication Technologies
Paxx Telecom: Privacy-assured Long Distance Phone Service
Paxx Telecom is promising privacy-assured long distance phone service. Their promises include: Guarantee never to turn over any records to the government or anyone else without a court order... Provide you with a short access number to dial in front…
Read More Paxx Telecom: Privacy-assured Long Distance Phone Service
CFP: Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium
[I am one of the organizers the following graduate student symposium to be held this fall at NYU] CALL FOR PAPERS Identity and Identification in a Networked World: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium When: September 29-30, 2006 Where: New York…
Read More CFP: Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium
Schneier: The Eternal Value of Privacy
Bruce Schneier has an excellent essay on the Eternal Value of Privacy in Wired. Highlights include: The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures…
The Twin Dangers of the National Surveillance State
Please read Jack Balkin's excellent post on the The Twin Dangers of the National Surveillance State: The twin dangers of national security displacing the criminal justice system and the criminal justice becoming increasingly like the national security system are consequences…
Read More The Twin Dangers of the National Surveillance State
Privacy, Web 2.0 and Photographing Strangers – Wired has it Wrong
The rise of camera phones, blogs and photo sharing sites like Flickr means people are frequently taking pictures of complete strangers in public places and posting them on the web. A reader asks Wired magazine if that's a violation of…
Read More Privacy, Web 2.0 and Photographing Strangers – Wired has it Wrong
MichaelZimmer.org 
You must be logged in to post a comment.