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Holistic and Pragmatic Approaches to Privacy Theorization

My thinking is that we should take a page from Kant’ book and genuinely inquire whether or not a parsimonious understanding of ‘privacy’ is actually what we want – do we want to focus on the pragmatic ‘now’ – or should we instead pursue nuanced and detailed accounts of privacy that are fluid enough to modulate themselves with changes in normative attitudes and technological innovations and that can simultaneously offer policy alternatives. Such an approach wouldn’t necessarily discount current pragmatic approaches to or understandings of privacy-related problems, but could innovate well beyond the limited conceptualizations lying behind some of the current pragmatic approaches. Continue reading

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Thoughts – Building Platforms for the Future

In this post I want to think, just a little bit, about the role of platforms and how I’m attempting to maneuver this space. This is aimed at better clarifying (for me) how this space is used, as well as … Continue reading

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Mobiles and Your Identity

Today I want to just briefly talk about the competition between Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s Blackberry. I’m not going to bother with things like the aesthetics or the ease of using one over the other. Instead what I … Continue reading

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Email and Calendaring

The University of Guelph will be moving to a new email provider in the next month or two and along with that movement will come (over time) a unified student calendaring system. I want to discuss the role of email, … Continue reading

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