Monthly Archives: May 2009
Administrative Note: Away for a While
I’m off to Ontario to attend the Summer Surveillance Studies Workshop at Queen’s University for the next little while, so there will be far fewer posts than I’ve been producing of late. There is a good one thinking about conceptualization … Continue reading
Canadian Privacy Advocates and Their Privacy Commissioners
What isn’t good, is that the listserv is damnably hard to find – it’s kept very private, and is effectively just word of mouth. This leaves the public out of the discussion, and leaves advocates and commissioners in a bubble that the public should at least be able to find via Google. This is a serious problem, and (to my mind) speaks of a not bizarre, and a potentially problematic, relationship between advocates and officials. Continue reading
Deep Packet Inspection and the Confluence of Privacy Regimes
Given how difficult I found it to find successful SSHRC-related research statements (save for through personal contacts) I wanted to post my own statement for others to look at and download if they so wish. Continue reading
Draft – Who Gives a ‘Tweet’ About Privacy?
This paper uses academic privacy literature to examine Twitter and the notion of reasonable expectations of privacy in public, and is written with the intent that it can help nuance privacy discussions concerning the discourse occuring on Twitter. Continue reading
