by Leroy Hurt | Jun 21, 2013 | Issues.Privacy, Issues.Surveillance
Via NY Times: …technology experts and former intelligence officials say the convergence between Silicon Valley and the N.S.A. and the rise of data mining — both as an industry and as a crucial intelligence tool — have created a more complex reality. Silicon Valley has...
by Leroy Hurt | Jun 21, 2013 | Issues.Privacy, Issues.Surveillance
Via NY Times: …technology experts and former intelligence officials say the convergence between Silicon Valley and the N.S.A. and the rise of data mining — both as an industry and as a crucial intelligence tool — have created a more complex reality. Silicon Valley has...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 27, 2013 | Issues.Privacy, Issues.Surveillance, Organizational.Functions.People
Via Boing Boing: The valuable trend in surveillance, Whiting says, is toward this data-driven analysis (even when much of the job still involves old-fashioned gumshoe work). “It’s the data,” he says, “And cameras now are data. So it’s all...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 27, 2013 | Issues.Privacy, Issues.Surveillance, Organizational.Functions.People
Via Boing Boing: The valuable trend in surveillance, Whiting says, is toward this data-driven analysis (even when much of the job still involves old-fashioned gumshoe work). “It’s the data,” he says, “And cameras now are data. So it’s all...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 26, 2012 | Issues.Privacy, Issues.Surveillance
Via Wired: Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 26, 2012 | Issues.Privacy, Issues.Surveillance
Via Wired: Federal regulators are proposing that new automobiles sold in the United States after September 2014 come equipped with black boxes, so-called “event data recorders” that chronicle everything from how fast a vehicle was traveling, the number of passengers...