The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University publishes a biweekly news magazine called NYC24. The current issue is on privacy:With 8 million people crammed into 321 square miles, privacy in New York City has always been a rare –…
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Oregon considers GPS Tracking Devices in Every Car
The NY Times writes about Oregon's experiments with a per-mile fee system that could replace general gas taxes. By installing GPS location tracking devices in every car, mileage could be tracked and users would have taxes levied on how much…
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Riya: Facial recognition for the masses
My earlier musings on Web 2.0's focus on the collection of (personal) metadata and the potential for the commercial aggregation of images of my likeness come into renewed focus with the launch of Riya (needs IE6 for PC; Firefox for…
Surveillance in Spheres of Mobility
The collaborators at the important "On the Identity Trail" project in Canada were kind enough to ask me to write an essay for their blog. Here is an excerpt:Surveillance in Spheres of Mobility: Privacy, Technical Design and the Flow of…
Schneier: The Future of Privacy
Bruce Schneier has a fabulous essay on "The Future of Privacy":Over the past 20 years, there's been a sea change in the battle for personal privacy. The pervasiveness of computers has resulted in the almost constant surveillance of everyone, with…
Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?
Today's Colloquium on Information Technology & Society at NYU Law School featured talk by Jonathan Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on recent developments in facial recognition technologies and algorithms. Some of the results suggested that…
AT&T’s 1.9-Trillion-Call Database
Bruce Schneier points out this nugget I missed when I originally blogged about the NYT's story detailing the rise in government data mining efforts, which includes the desire to check virtually every phone call ever made. Here's how the government…
CDT: Stronger Laws Needed to Protect Privacy
A new report by the Center for Democracy & Technology details a widening gap between the technology that collects sensitive personal data and the laws designed to protect that data against government misuse. The National Security Agency's domestic spying program,…
Panoptic sorting…with a twist of lime
In his disucssion of the rise of everyday surveillance, Oscar Gandy describes systems that enable "panoptic sorting," discriminatory technologies which surveil all information about an individual’s status and behavior to use in the profiling and categorization of a person’s potential…
NYT: US Looking for New Ways to Mine Your Data
Today's New York Times features the article "Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data," which focuses on government meetings with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, hoping to find or develop advanced technologies…
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