Tag Archives: Law & Policy
Stealing is stealing
In an earlier post, I wrote about how difficult it was to get students to think about issues of privacy. There is very little space between the “I see no immediate damage, so there are more salient concerns” and “there is nothing I can do about this, no matter how bad it is.” Actually, this […]
Transit, strike 2
It seemed very cool for a while to have no car. Why have a car when you are two blocks from a subway station that will take you anywhere in the city? Now we are asking how long this can go on? A recent article in the Times suggests that if it lasts until the […]
Why would I need privacy?
Every time I teach about privacy it bugs me that students are not bugged; or rather, they are not bothered about being bugged. Or something. What I am trying to say is that my students at the graduate and undergraduate level seem nonchalant about issues of personal privacy. It’s enough to make me wonder if […]
CFP Session: Pressing forward