Category Archives: Privacy
Weebly, Analytics, and Privacy Violations (Updated II)
Google demands that a very low baseline be met as a condition of using Analytics to surveil web visitors: they should be obliged to ensure that the baseline is met and, where it isn’t, apply consequences for violating Google’s terms of service. If the company can take a hard line on pseudonyms on their social networking service, why can’t they take a similar line concerning the use of the company’s older Analytics product? Continue reading
Letter to Stephen Harper on Lawful Access Legislation
Working from the most recent lawful access bills, which died when the last election was called, advocates and academics have come together to draft a letter of concerns to the Prime Ministers Office (PMO). Continue reading
Creeping Towards a State of Surveillance
An announcement for my forthcoming talk entitled “Creeping Towards a State of Surveillance.” In the talk I’ll be providing an introduction to the gravity and nuances of surveillance legislation and disclosing some of the ‘tricks’ that are used to acquire considerable amounts of personal information by exploiting citizens’ ignorance of contemporary policing activities. Continue reading
Review of The Googlization of Everything
Ultimately, while Vaidhyanathan offers insight into Google itself – its processes, products, and implications of using the companies systems – he is less successful in digging deeply into the nature of technology and Google at a theoretical level. This leaves the reader with an empirical understanding of the topic matter without significant analytic resources to unpack the theoretical significance of their newfound empirical understandings. Continue reading
