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Bank of Screens
I watched Red Road during the week. I thought it was great. But then I’m obsessed with all things to do with surveillance.
The woman in it gets to watch this huge bank of screens and follow people around on them. I am totally against this kind of thing but I would really love to have [...]
EFF: Breaking News
EFF: Breaking News
It’s been a while since I checked out what was happening with the EFF. Right now they are suing the FBI for information regarding surveillance technologies used to monitor online activity.
EFF AT&T case
EFF: Breaking News
End of Privacy
I finished reading The Digital Person by Daniel Solove. The last section is all about government access to information stored by private companies. Database firms like ChoicePoint are making electronic profiles of us that they will sell to anyone prepared to pay for this data. Federal Agencies can buy information from ChoicePoint that they are [...]
Fallacy of Market-Based Solutions to Privacy Problems
I just read chapters 5 & 6 of Solove’s The Digital Person. It’s about the limitations of the idea of the market providing adequate protection to people’s privacy. The idea that people don’t care about their personal information because they are prepared to sign it away for free is one of those disingenuous arguments that [...]
Government Documents
I just read the section of Solove’s The Digital Person about the records that the US government holds on its citizens and the privacy problems that arise from the fact that so many of them are public.
Of course the meaning of “public” changes when rather than seek out a particular piece of information from a [...]
Warden watching gamers
BBC NEWS | Technology | Warcraft game maker in spying row
National Security Letters
This week’s guest on Earshot was Kevin Bankston from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
He spoke to me about National Security Letters, gag orders, and the Patriot Act’s impact on privacy rights.
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History of Privacy Law in USA
So this is what I’ve been reading about for Privacy class.
Still loving The Digital Person, Solove has a repect for literary metaphor that I really appreciate.
His argument is that the Big Brother paradigm has harmed conceptions of privacy because the real threat to privacy comes not from an organised totalitarian regime, but from decentralised, [...]
Digital Dossiers
For Embedding Privacy we had to read “Privacy and the Private States” by Janna Malamud Smith. It looks at the states of privacy, as name by Alan Westin: solitude, anonymity, reserve, and intimacy. It’s not earth-shattering, but puts some of the main issues with privacy into some kind of order. As we discovered at the [...]
