Tag: surveillance
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The Rio Olympics: Surveillance for the poor, control for the rich » As crowds gather to watch the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, there will be giant eyes-in-the-sky watching them… more ›
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How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record.… more ›
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Rush For Police Cameras Leaves Questions On What Public Can See As the Seattle Police Department joined hundreds of the nation’s law enforcement agencies outfitting officers with body-worn cameras late… more ›
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The ‘Loser Edit’ That Awaits Us All If you have ever watched a reality TV show and said, “He’s going home tonight,” you know what the “loser edit” is. I… more ›
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Permanent Recorder It used to be easy to mock reality TV for having nothing to do with actual reality — the scenarios were contrived and pre-mediated, the performances were semi-scripted,… more ›
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“instead of the entire space being private, there are going to be public areas in our home.” – www.superflux.in/blog/valley-of-the-meatpuppets more ›
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“That doesn’t make Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Amazon any better than Google – Facebook in particular, oh my God – but it’s the first time that these new titans of… more ›
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‘Open Informant’ attempts to confront the unsettling realties of surveillance in a networked age. Open Informant is a phone app and e-ink badge. The app searches your communications for these NSA trigger words… more ›