Tag Archives: Privacy

Panveillance

By alex | Published: 3/1/2007
Kevin is playing with using his new helmet-cam to record his everyday experience. I did this a few years ago, trying to record an entire day, using a webcam and my laptop. Mine was, by necessity, shoulder-mounted, rather than head-mounted, which has its own advantages and disadvantages. The idea runs back to Mann’s sousveillance or […]
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Should he go?

By alex | Published: 10/31/2006
I’m in the midst of designing my graduate media law class for next semester. Even though it isn’t directly part of the interactive communication major (it’s required of all graduate students in the School of Communications, I think), I’m taking a heavily “interactive” leaning to it. That means that instead of spending 80% of the […]
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More “found data”

By alex | Published: 9/16/2006
See, I said I would post soon! Add this to the AOL leak: Someone ran across a collection of MySpace passwords, badly hidden on a phishing server. Again, a really interesting dataset (and no, he isn’t making the data available!), but tinged by the absolutely unethical and illegal method of collection. Of course, you could […]
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Facebook retreats

By alex | Published: 9/8/2006
Since some following the Facebook events may not actually be using Facebook, I’ve copied Zuckerberg’s response below. I do think there are parallels between this and the release of the AOL search data. In both cases, designers failed to predict the potential privacy implications of their systems. It’s worth contrasting these with another rollout over […]
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