Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Thesis_15_Technology and Privacy—Future readings.

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Solove, D. (2006) The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age, New York: New York University Press

Gandy, O. (2006) “Data Mining, Surveillance, and Discrimination” in The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility, eds. Haggerty, K. and Ericson R., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 363-84.

Clarke, R. (1988) “Information technology and dataveillance” in Communications of the ACM, 31(5), May 1988: 498-512. Cited in Lyon 2001, p.143

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Interesting article in the Washington Post

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

This article is about the proliferation of microchips in our products to track the products’ voyage from it’s inception / creation to the market shelves, finally to the consumer. This will allow marketers to form detailed data and spending habits of a consumer. The article states that this is a valid option for data mining that will become widespread in the near future.

Some opponents of this bring up George Orwell’s 1984 and use phrases such as ‘big brother’ when addressing the microchips and their ‘tracking’ like use.

LINK: The Washington Post

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