The 9/11 anniversary reminds us, among all the other things, of the questions of government surveillance that have arisen in the last decade, some related
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This is your Background Check on Steroids
An article, “Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle,” by Jennifer Preston in yesterday’s NYT is obvious fodder for the sociology of information. It’s
No Such Thing as Evanescent Data
Pretty good coverage of the “iphone keeps track of where you’ve been” story in today’s NYT “Inquiries Grow Over Apple’s Data Collection Practices” and in
From Information Superhighway to Information Metrosystem
The new FTC report on consumer privacy has an interesting graphic in an appendix. It purports to be a model of the “Personal Data Ecosystem.”
Surveilance Raised to the Second Power
The following article appear about a week ago over the AP business wire. It turns out that parents who “spy” on their children may be
Notification and the Public Sphere
Working today on the outline for a chapter on “notification and the public sphere.” In previous chapters the focus was notification and the maintenance of
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