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Big data and surveillance in cities: convenience vs tracking
Guest post by Peter Van Sidewalk Labs is Google's / Alphabet Inc.'s urban innovation organisation. Its goal is to improve urban infrastructure through technological solutions,...
▶ Why Care About the NSA? – Brian Knappenberger Video (NYT)
▶ Why Care About the NSA? – Brian Knappenberger Op-Doc – YouTube. Nice video, really made me think ... Read more
10
Dec 2013
How the NSA is tracking people right now, via The Washington Post (unbelievable, really)
How the NSA is tracking people right now – The Washington Post. Check this out. Information Superiority is everything I guess. ... Read more
05
Dec 2013
Heading into a world of total surveillance (nice illustration by TJ Blackwell via Flickr)
“One nation under CCTV” Is this where we are going because we apparently need to a) be reached with marketing messages b) not pay for...
12
Sep 2013
Kill U.S. web firms’ license to operate in Europe, German privacy officials urge (via GigaOm)
David Meyer of GigaOm writes a very sharp and astute comment here; excerpts below. “The Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and Europe, which allows...
18
Aug 2013
NYT piece: new targets for hackers: cars, homes and bodies (reality shock ;)
This piece on the NYT bit blog really made me think. Hackers and security researchers are moving away from simply trying to break into —...
18
Aug 2013
Yes: People Are Changing Their Internet Habits Now That They Know The NSA Is Watching
Read more at Fast Coexist . ..according to a new analysis from Annalect, a digital data and analytics firm, two months of ongoing discussion about...
18
Aug 2013
We need Big Tech to protect us from Big Brother says Jeff Jarvis (theguardian.com)
We need Big Tech to protect us from Big Brother | Jeff Jarvis | Comment is free | theguardian.com. Yonathan Zunger, the chief architect of...
13
Aug 2013
▶ Has the Gov’t Lied on Snooping? Let’s Go to the Videotape… (must watch re PRISM affair & surveillance)
▶ Has the Gov't Lied on Snooping? Let's Go to the Videotape – YouTube. ... Read more
13
Aug 2013
▶ CIA’s Chief Tech Officer on Big Data: We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever (one scary video)
▶ CIA's Chief Tech Officer on Big Data: We Try to Collect Everything and Hang Onto It Forever – YouTube. Just ran across this video...
