Tag Archives: twitter

Vancouver’s Human Flesh Search Engine

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Christopher

The actions taken to identify, name, and shame alleged rioters is the beginning of a long slide towards a state of mind and looseness of ethics that have been proven to cause harm abroad: I see no reason, based on those experiences, why we should import known, failed, modes of citizen surveillance and investigation. Continue reading →

Posted in Privacy, Social Networking, Surveillance | 29 Comments

Twitter, Mobile Browsers, and Metadata Privacy

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Christopher

There is a lot of information appended to tweets and mobile web browser data requests. This post investigates what is revealed and the impact this has on Canadians’ control over their personal information. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobiles, Privacy, Social Networking, Technology | 3 Comments

Privacy Norms in the Bio-Digital World

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Christopher

What is the penalty when public information is situated outside of its original format and mashed-up with other data sources? What happens when we correlate data to ‘map’ it? Continue reading →

Posted in Geolocation, Privacy, Technology, Thoughts | Leave a comment

Continuums of Social Media?

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Christopher

In this post I want to think about ways of ‘structuring’ social media along a set of continuums/formalized networks and the role of HTML 5′s semantic possibilities in pushing past the present set of social networking environments. Continue reading →

Posted in Social Networking, Thoughts | 2 Comments
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