Jeremy Hunsinger points to this disturbing report about how a dean of students at a Washington high school thought he saw two girls kissing, so he checked the school's surveillance footage to confirm it. He then proceeded to share what…
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Jason Fry, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, writes about the increasing lack of "security via obscurity" as more and more public records become searchable online. While this is old news for many of us, it's nice to see…
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…
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…
Hillary Clinton has been touted as the "privacy candidate" for the 2008 Presidential elections, which is certainly a good reason to consider voting for her (not my sole criterion, but one of the top 5). This recent NY Times story,…
Read More Clintons in Relationship with Privacy-Violating Info Broker
The amazing team of researchers at On the Identity Trail project have released two short videos exploring the "reasonable expectations of privacy": The first film, "Tessling-Just the Facts", is a brief dramatization of the facts that gave rise to R.…
Rory Litwin at the excellent Library Juice blog suggests three things we can do to remind ourselves why privacy matters: Recall specific occasions in your life when you realized you needed to make some information about yourself more private, or…
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