Category Archives: Privacy
Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life
This international workshop brings together researchers, advocates, activists and artists working on the many aspects of cyber-surveillance, particularly as it pervades and mediates social life. Continue reading
Update: Feeva, Advertising, and Privacy
d. Feeva’s adoption of privacy as a cornerstone of their business indicates a (rare) success for privacy advocates who have advocated for stronger privacy protections online; whether you agree with the success resting on the technology (where I think a success can be read), at the very least least it should be agreed that baking privacy into Feeva’s advertising-based business model is a success. Continue reading
Ole, Intellectual Property, and Taxing Canadian ISPs
se companies. At best we might feel pity as we watch them wallow in their crisis. At worst, we fear what they might crush as they roll around on the ground like starving dinosaurs and demolish other elements of civil society in their throes of panic and fear aimed at extinguishing the generativity that endangers their ontological security. They’ve already made a real mess of copyright and cultural transmission possibilities; let’s hope they don’t damage the conditions of democratic communication itself as well. Continue reading
On a Social Networking Bill of Rights
There is an up or down ‘vote’ of the Bill: in a conference that regularly noted the challenges surrounding binary access controls we are left with a binary acceptance/refusal metric. We are faced with a ‘dead’ or static Bill: it’s failure to incorporate reflexivity and closedness to the diversity of discursive possibilities emerging as others enter into discussions about the Bill leads to it failing Habermasian and Kantian demands for being a legitimate constitutional document. As such, we are left not so much with a Bill of Rights as a closed Statement of Rights. The former would have been truly exciting, whereas the latter is strategic and useful, but is disingenuously appropriating the term ‘Bill of Rights’ for rhetorical purposes. Continue reading
