Tag Archives: Social Networking
Recording of ‘Traffic Analysis, Privacy, and Social Media’
The abstract for my presentation, as well as references, have already been made available. I wasn’t aware (or had forgotten) that all the presentations from Social Media Camp Victoria were going to be recorded and put on the web, but … Continue reading
References for ‘Putting the Meaningful into Meaningful Consent’
My keynote file and references for a talk given to Social Media Club Vancouver. Continue reading
Forthcoming Talk at Social Media Camp Victoria
I’ll be talking about the use of traffic analysis and data mining practices that can be used to engage in massive surveillance of social networking environments and the value of drawing links between users rather than investigating the content of communications. The argumentative ‘thrust’ is that freedoms of expression and association may offer a approach to secure privacy in the face of weakened search laws. The full abstract can be read below. 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
