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The Daily Bell -- Facebook IPO Is US Intel Operation?
'...one is struck by the paucity involved in the actual business model. Facebook's content is furnished by its users – and user information is then resold to advertisers. The model is simplicity itself and involves little creative content. This is probably one reason why Facebook is constantly getting into trouble over its privacy policy. The company really has nothing to offer but user-driven data. The more of it that the company can extract, the more valuable the company becomes. It is perhaps, therefore, the first company in history where the business model is based almost entirely on spying. Google does much the same thing, but at least Google provides a search algorithm. Facebook's business posture is almost irredeemably hostile to its users. It's a strategy based on a kind of deception. The data Facebook gathers is valuable to more than just advertisers. Anyone who investigates Facebook in an unbiased way will find clear evidence that the website is being used for "Intel" purposes, much in the same manner as Google.'
internet  facebook  surveillance 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
Ribbonfarm -- Peak Attention and the Colonization of Subcultures
'Rather ironically, most of the mechanisms required to observe and control subcultures are being invented by subcultures themselves. External forces are merely stepping in to co-opt them. The subcultural web is now being made legible and governable under the harsh light of Facebook Like actions. Just in time too, since the returns on coarser forms of political and economic exploitation are now rapidly diminishing. Contrary to popular belief, subcultures are not vague constructs. They have a precise, if negative, definition: a subculture is a pattern of social order that is not worth codifying and institutionalizing for the purposes of governance or economic exploitation, under normal circumstances. The Internet though, has changed all this. It has allowed subcultures to scale (by moving their secret-handshake institutions online), and become more valuable in the process. While mass-manufactured celebrity cultures have been weakening, we are not returning to pre-mass-media patterns of local culture. Instead, we’ve evolved to mega-subcultures that scale without developing institutions. And at the same time, the visibility of subcultural behaviors has made governance and exploitation much cheaper and easier. ...once marketers working with Big Data get ahead of the cultural curve, you can expect the balance of power to shift decisively in their favor. From detecting subcultures before future members themselves do, to actively seeding, breeding and shaping desirable subcultures, is not a big leap to imagine. It will be a world of pre-cognitive marketing, run by quants in data vats.'
internet  retribalization  globalvillage  datamining  sousveillance  surveillance  simulacra 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
OSnews -- Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
'The crux of the matter here is that unlike the days of yore, where repressive regimes needed elaborate networks of secret police and informants to monitor communication, all they need now is control over the software and hardware we use. Our desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and all manner of devices play a role in virtually all of our communication. Think you're in the clear when communicating face-to-face? Think again. How did you arrange the meet-up? Over the phone? The web? And what do you have in your pocket or bag, always connected to the network? This is what Stallman has been warning us about all these years - and most of us, including myself, never really took him seriously. However, as the world changes, the importance of the ability to check what the code in your devices is doing - by someone else in case you lack the skills - becomes increasingly apparent. If we lose the ability to check what our own computers are doing, we're boned.'
totalitarianism  panopticon  surveillance  privacy  censorship  chokepoints  opensource 
january 2012 by adamcrowe
The Atlantic -- Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
'With the use of publicly available Web 2.0 data, the researchers can potentially go from a snapshot to a Social Security number in a matter of minutes... ...your digital life is becoming inseparable from your analog one. You may be able to change your name or scrub your social networking profiles to throw off the trail of digital footprints you've inadvertently scattered across the Internet, but you can't change your face. And the cloud never forgets a face.'
panopticon  surveillance  facialrecognition  facecrime  1984 
october 2011 by adamcrowe
Prison Planet -- What Else Will The Government’s “Special Chip” In Your Cellphone Do?
'The announcement that Americans are set to be bombarded with mandatory government propaganda via their cellphones represents a shocking lurch forward in the Obama administration’s bid to launch a total takeover of all communications as part of a wider move towards controlling the Internet, developing an omnipresent wiretap system, and creating a constant environment of suspicion and distrust by enlisting citizens to spy on each other. Short of implanting a microchip in people’s heads, the US government has opted for the next best thing, a chip in your cellphone. But what else will these “special chips” be used for? We are now just a few steps away from having literal telescreens installed in our homes that beam directly into our brains the latest government fables about who we’re bombing now, what level chocolate rations are this month, as well as Michelle Obama’s mandatory exercise program.' -- How many fingers, Winston?
terrorism!  securitytheatre  panopticon  surveillance  telescreen  snitching  stasi  1984  from delicious
may 2011 by adamcrowe
Onion News Network -- CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs
'The CIA's invention of Facebook has saved the government millions of dollars.'
TheOnion  facebook  surveillance  panopticon  subsistenceclicking  satire  minipax  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
Martin Backes -- New Artwork: Pixelhead
'The full face mask Pixelhead acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognizable on photographs taken in public places without securing permission. A simple piece of fabric creates a little piece of anonymity for the Internet age.'
anonymity  privacy  surveillance  facialrecognition  countermeasures  scramblesuit  PKD  from delicious
march 2011 by adamcrowe
Wikipedia -- We Live in Public
'Among Harris' experiments touched on in the film is the art project "Quiet: We Live in Public," an Orwellian, Big Brother type concept developed in the late '90s which placed more than 100 artists in a human terrarium under New York City, with myriad webcams following and capturing every move the artists made. The pièce de résistance was a Japanese-style capsule hotel outfitted with cameras in every pod, and screens that allowed each occupant to monitor the other pods installed in the basement by artist Jeff Gompertz. The film's website describes how, "With Quiet, Harris proved how, in the not-so-distant future of life online, we will willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, including another six-month stint living under 24-hour live surveillance online which led him to mental collapse, he demonstrated the price we will all pay for living in public."'
documentaries  internet  panopticon  anonequiveillance  privacy  voyeurism  oversharing  selfservers  realitytv  performance  masks  contextcollapse  relationalaesthetics  liveart  art  surveillance  puppetry  equiveillance  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
danah boyd | apophenia -- Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
'Mikalah uses Facebook but when she goes to log out, she deactivates her Facebook account. ...when she’s not logged in, no one can post messages on her wall or send her messages privately or browse her content. But when she’s logged in, they can do all of that. And she can delete anything that she doesn’t like. ...she wants to be a part of Facebook when it makes sense and not risk the possibility that people will be snooping when she’s not around. ...you’re not searchable when you’re not around. You really are invisible except when you’re there. And when you’re there, your friends know it, which is great. What Mikalah does gives her the ability to let Facebook be useful to her when she’s present but not live on when she’s not. -- Shamika doesn’t deactivate her Facebook profile but she does delete every wall message, status update, and Like shortly after it’s posted. When she’s done reading a friend’s comment on her page, she’ll delete it. ...“too much drama.”' -- Ghosts in the shell
internet  web  behaviours  facebook  ambientexposure  traceeradication  privacy  surveillance  gossip  countermeasures  from delicious
february 2011 by adamcrowe
Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Surveillance Self-Defense International
'Introduction: The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance. Below are six basic ideas for those attempting to speak without falling victim to authoritarian surveillance and censorship, and four ideas for the rest of us who want to help support them.'
internet  surveillance  censorship  countermeasures  immunesystem  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
HerdictWeb
'Herdict Web is the first collaborative, real-time map of Internet accessibility. Herdict Web seeks to present a real-time picture of Web site accessibility and inaccessibility. By crowdsourcing data from individuals around the world, Herdict Web allows you to see what is inaccessible, where it's inaccessible, and for how long. You can see which countries have the most reports, and which Web sites are most often reported. You can track inaccessibility by country, by keyword, across regions, and over time. Your contributions are what drive the herd.'
meta  internet  surveillance  equiveillance  censorship  blacklist  countermeasures  immunesystem  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
USATODAY.com -- Hello, Big Brother: Digital sensors are watching us
'...a stranger in a mall or restaurant could photograph you, then go online to profile you. "People will be able to instantaneously find out about you," Calo says. Still, in a world of pervasive sensors, troubling data correlations are cropping up in unanticipated ways. For instance, most consumers are ignorant about how smartphones equipped with GPS location finders routinely "geotag" photos and videos, embedding images with the longitude and latitude of the location shown in the image. Last summer, industrial designer Adam Savage, co-host of the TV show MythBusters, used his iPhone to snap a photo of his Toyota Land Cruiser parked in front of his house, then posted it on Twitter. In doing so, Savage, in effect, publicly disclosed where he lives.
everyware  data  leaky  reputation  anonequiveillance  surveillance  sousveillance  oversharing  panopticon  equiveillance  from delicious
january 2011 by adamcrowe
Antiwar.com -- Citing Facebook Posts, Fox News Turns in Indiana Grandmother for ‘Terror Link’
'Fox Insists Woman Made 'Anti-American Comments' in Emails. ...the article delves into serious kookiness as the author complains that Mrs. Smith refused to “friend” her on Facebook and was discovered to have clicked “Like” on a profile for Anwar al-Awlaki, a US born cleric tapped for assassination by President Obama. The “case” against Mrs. Smith however is not really the relevant factor here, so much as the fact that Fox News took it upon themselves to build a case against some random convert in Indianapolis and then “turned her in” to the feds. The effort against Smith closes with a chilling comment from the grandmother, who notes “I am exercising my right, as an American citizen to freedom of speech, religion, and the right to bare arms. I have the right in America to say what ever I want. That is what makes America so great, right?” The report then immediately segues into a comment from an unnamed “consultant” claiming that Smith’s comments are “classic signs of extremism.”'
america  terrorism!  totalitarianism  telescreen  surveillance  snitching  1984  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- The Social Networking Buzz
'We think we can tell a sub dominant social theme when we see one. Social network companies get a lot of press and attention because they represent the controllable side of the Internet, in our view. Social networking is the "softer side" of the Internet from a power elite standpoint. A small intergenerational, familial elite has seen its secrecy ripped asunder by the Internet. But these sites, especially Facebook with some 500 million users, are far less challenging to elite plans for global centralization. If anything, one could argue that such networks offer the kind of naïve openness and frivolity that the elite is pleased to take advantage of. Social networking is perhaps a preferable Internet construct. It also provides a far more controllable template for manipulating public use of electronic communications. Outfits like the CIA never create ventures, but they do apparently encourage the growth of the ones that they deem most useful.'
internet  facebook  socialnetworking  surveillance  panopticon  honeypot  chokepoints  minipax  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Last Psychiatrist -- 5 Things You Need To Understand About Wikileaks Before You Celebrate
'He's not doing it to give to uncover the lies and corruption of the of the U.S. Government – that's the byproduct. That this will force institutions and departments to wall off and not communicate with one another – that's the primary goal. That's why Assange doesn't care whether the cables are salacious or revealing, only that there be a lot of them, leaked slowly over time – to make people too nervous to work. His goal isn't to tell you what's in the truck but to stop trucking. If people know their secrets might be leaked, they'll be reluctant to put their secrets in a truck. Eventually, they will simply stop trucking. When they stop trucking, they go out of business. Will it work? I doubt it: individual human beings (today) assume they are able to control when and how other people perceive them... If the government can't control the cargo or the trucks, it will try to control the roads. Since it can't, it will get private sector industry to do so.'
wikileaks  leaky  government  panopticon  surveillance  equiveillance  internet  JulianAssange  subversion  from delicious
december 2010 by adamcrowe
The Police State Is Doomed by Gary North
'To run a really successful tyranny, the leaders must have increasing wealth as well as more reliable data. They need wealth to hire the programmers, the data collectors, and the police. Computer costs keep falling, but they fall much faster in the private sector (microcomputers) than the government sector (mainframes). Yes, governments have access to ever-growing quantities of data. But the public has far greater access to low-cost information that it uses to increase the overall complexity of society. The task of monitoring what is going on becomes ever-more utopian. The government is always falling behind... The greater the complexity of society, the less able the State is to monitor it, assess it, and use the data to control it. The police State is doomed. It cannot possibly keep up with the constant innovation of society. It cannot gain access to enough resources to maintain control. It wastes the resources it commandeers. The free market is winning.'
2+2=5  socialism  statism  government  surveillance  stasi  tyranny  information  internet  cognitivesurplus  markets  #complexity  #ubiquity  #socialization  voluntaryism  freedom  2+2=4  from delicious
november 2010 by adamcrowe
No Free Lunch From The Hackers by Paul Rosenberg
'As for the battle we face now: We are facing-off against the biggest intel agencies, the biggest tech companies and some of the biggest crooks in the world. Even with all the technology we now have for avoiding surveillance, we estimate that there are between 4 and 5 million people worldwide that use it, maximum. That equates to less than one percent. There are roughly 2 billion Internet users in the world (266 million in North America, 475 million in Europe, 825 million in Asia, 205 million in Latin America), but only 5 million using the things that hackers provide. The truth is that a lot of people think they can piggy-back on a bunch of guys who are internally driven to protect the Internet. They are wrong; the hackers have bills to pay, and if customers won’t pay them, they can’t make a living hacking crypto. Markets are what they are, and people will not continue to provide unrewarded services. -- ... we need alternate networks, not alternate endpoints.'
cryptography  privacy  darknets  hackersvsvectoralists  internet  surveillance  stasi  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
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government  surveillance  stasi  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- NMA: Are parents' online habits putting kids in peril?
'Online social media is not just for adults anymore. A new study claims that 80% of children in the western world have some form of social media presence by the time they reach age 2.'
surveillance  sousveillance  identity  privacy  theadvertisedlife  socialmedia  from delicious
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Project Syndicate -- Mirror, Mirror, on the Screen
'I suspect that the people who need Digital Mirror the most are the ones who will recognize that need the least. Still, it may help the semi-self-aware to improve their personal relations – or at least to be more aware of the trade-offs they make when they favor one friend or colleague over another. This all reflects a trend toward greater clarity in our relations. Facebook and other social tools operate under the covers: Facebook notices which friends you interact with and whose photos you comment on in order to select the items in your NewsFeed or the ads you see. But Facebook does not show that information to you. Digital Mirror does. Within a few years, this kind of transparency will probably be commonplace, both from Facebook and from ad networks and behavioral targeters trying to derive information about your likely purchases. But right now, only Digital Mirror is one of the few to give you the ability to do the same for yourself.'
socialmedia  sousveillance  surveillance  equiveillance  quantifiedself  etiquette 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
BBC -- CCTV site Internet Eyes hopes to help catch criminals
'Mr Morgan said: "The subscribers will have access to four screens at the same time and if they see anything suspicious, they can press the 'alert' button. This then sends an instant text and picture message to the shop assistant or manager - who then makes the decision about what action to take." He said people have no choice over what CCTV footage they are able to watch for the 20 minutes they have access to, and they would be banned from viewing footage in their local area. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has allowed the company to launch its beta site after it agreed to a number of changes, including only allowing subscribers aged 18 and over to access the site. The ICO also requested the company, which had planned to offer the service for free, make people pay £12.99 or £1.99 to use it so their details could be checked and to prevent any voyeurism and misuse of the system.'
uk  cctv  snitching  stasi  surveillance 
october 2010 by adamcrowe
Footprint Feed
'Update your fees with your movements. Geofencing goes social with Google Latitude, Facebook, Twitter, RSS, Email, SMS txt, LinkedIn and Buzz.'
location  surveillance  sousveillance 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Corbett Report: Panopticon UK
DO IT TO JULIA, NOT ME!
uk  thoughtcrime  precrime  snitching  stasi  surveillance  panopticon  1984 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
DISCOVER Magazine -- We Need to Reclaim Our Private Spaces by Sherry Turkle
'Not a few sum up their position by saying in one way or another, “The way to deal is to just be good.” But sometimes a citizenry should not “be good.” You have to leave room for this—space for dissent, real dissent. You need to leave technical space (a sacrosanct mailbox) and mental space. The two are intertwined. We make our technologies, and they, in turn, make and shape us. In a democracy, perhaps we all need to begin with the assumption that everyone has something to hide, a zone of private action and reflection, a zone that needs to be protected. My hope is that we rediscover our need for privacy. To me, opening up a conversation about rethinking the Net, privacy, and civil society is not backward-looking nostalgia in the least. It seems like part of a healthy process of democracy defining its sacred spaces.'
surveillance  sousveillance  publics  privacy  ownlife  SherryTurkle  from delicious
september 2010 by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer To You
'Instead of implicitly checking into different spots like you do with Foursquare and Gowalla, or broadcasting everywhere you go in the background like you do with Google Latitude, Neer creates geo-fences that trigger location updates to your inner circle. With Neer, you create a geo-fence around certain places like home, work, or school simply by marking them on your phone when you are there. Entering or leaving the location triggers an update message to your inner circle. Rather than seeing where you are on a map, all they see is the name you’ve given each place.'
location  mapping  surveillance  darknets  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  proprioception  perimeter  retribalization 
september 2010 by adamcrowe
The Independent -- Big Brother: the series that made surveillance
'The most alarming fall-out from Big Brother is that it has ushered in a surveillance society, to which everyone contributes. No specialised area of human life, no tiny detail of behaviour, is now so trivial that we won't report it to each other with high seriousness, as if it were a dispatch from a war zone. And in the intervening years, we've quietly become a nation of housemates, endlessly spied on by authorities and by businesses. The surveyed have become the surveyors. "Them" has become "Us." Ten years of watching human guinea pigs and lab-rats at close quarters, living out their three-month imprisonment in a prefabricated hell, has given us a taste for prying into each other's lives and dramatising the trivial details of our own, while making everything public on electronic screens. Perhaps, like Winston Smith at the end of Orwell's masterpiece, we've finally given in. We love Big Brother.'
realitytv  surveillance  sousveillance  equiveillance  panopticon  snitching  bigbrother  1984  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
BBC -- Facebook's battle with privacy and profit
'It is a game of privacy cat and mouse that has prompted some users to rebel and others to unconsciously outsmart Facebook. Social technology commentator Laurent Haug believes changes to the privacy settings are altering the way people use Facebook. "People understood that their privacy was at risk and therefore they will falsify the information. Fewer of us are putting down our real details, many of us fabricate our lives online and some even have multiple identities on Facebook. There is a real possibility then that much of the personal data Facebook has been collecting from us might actually be false.' -- Haha! Poison the well.
internet  web  facebook  surveillance  privacy  backlash  countermeasures  signalvsnoise  misinformation  graynets  darknets  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Mashable -- Why Location-Based Social Media Needs to Get "Passive" Aggressive
'...smart, passive checkins. More advanced systems could also guard against “cheating” because they would keep you honest: Your phone is like your IP address. If we can find smart ways to stop fictional checkins, this in turn will make rewards and prizes for loyalty more relevant. The next step, once you have approved the checkin, would be whether you would push this information to Facebook (Facebook) and/or Twitter (Twitter). The option would of course exist to be easily “OffGrid,” if you don’t want to be found. This feature would also make a lot of sense for “swarming.” A swarm is a proactive thing, one of the cornerstones of social networking and a real payoff for geosocial. If a predictive system was implemented, the service could then know when to expect a swarm and how many people would likely be there — data that would be extremely valuable for a variety of businesses. What we want is a passive geosocial experience, and we don’t care who brings it to us.'
location  psychogeography  mapping  surveillance  sousveillance  tethered 
august 2010 by adamcrowe
The A.V. Club -- A Scanner Darkly: Philip K. Dick's thematic obsessions
'All the drug addicts in Scanner are paranoid to some extent or another, partly from their illegal lifestyle, partly for the strange stuff they lay on their brains. Their paranoia is arguably justified, because people are watching them, and the cops in the book don't seem to have much concern for due process. Where it gets interesting is how rarely the specific concerns of the paranoiacs and the reality of the conspiracy against them actual intersect. It's one of the book's best, sickest jokes..'
PKD  surveillance  paranoia  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- Look Closely, Doctor - See the Camera?
'Psychosis in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an actor. The Truman Show delusion, or Truman Syndrome... The delusions are fueling a chicken-and-egg debate in psychiatry: Are these merely modern examples of classic paranoia fed by the current cultural landscape, or is there something about media like reality television and the Internet that can push people over the sanity line? Psychiatrists say that other movies whose characters are living in a unreal world or being watched by malevolent forces, including “The Matrix,” “Edtv” and even the film based on George Orwell’s “1984,” have come up in conversations with psychotic patients. But the premise of “The Truman Show” is strikingly similar to what patients describe as their own experiences.'
technology  temes  psychology  psychosis  surveillance  panopticon  paranoia  pseudoworlds  simulacra  from delicious
august 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service
'Meet Caterina Fake, the creative spark behind Hunch. Her big idea? Develop a web service that knows what you want before you even want it. Get people talking about themselves — their opinions, tastes, beliefs, idiosyncrasies. Then, once they have shared enough information, mine that data for correlations that provide precisely tailored recommendations for each user. It is a quietly radical premise, implying that our tastes are defined not only by what we buy or what we’ve liked in the past but by who we are as people. There’s only so much it can learn from 1 million users. So Hunch is scouring the Web for information, combing the databases of social sites like Facebook and Twitter for anything that’s publicly available — opinions and allegiances, likes and dislikes, followers and friend requests.' -- Why so curious?
socialmedia  recommendations  hunch  surveillance  sousveillance  narcissism  oversharing  hivemind  tethered  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
The Observer -- Crime software may help police predict violent offences
'Crush (Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History) evaluates patterns of past and present incidents, then combines the information with a range of data including crime reports, intelligence briefings, offender behaviour profiles and even weather forecasts. This is used to identify potential hot spots and flashpoints, so police forces can allocate resources to areas where particular crimes are most likely to occur. Earlier this year the Ministry of Justice began using predictive analytics to assess the data held within its Offender Assessment System and help predict which prisoners due for release were most likely to reoffend based on circumstances such as accommodation, education, relationships, financial management and income, lifestyle and associates, drug and alcohol misuse, emotional well-being, behaviour and attitudes. "At some point in the future we hope to include analysis of feeds from CCTV cameras and public sources from the internet such as Facebook posts."'
precrime  criminology  surveillance  realitymining  datamining  1984  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
'The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.” The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.' -- TOMORROW. TERRORIST. WE KNOW. MAKE REPORT. THIS WARN YOU.
realtime  sentiment  realitymining  datamining  terrorism!  stasi  thoughtcrime  precrime  miniluv  1984  surveillance  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Conspiracy as Governance -- me @ iq.org (Julian Assange) December 3, 2006 (PDF)
'To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not. We must understand the key generative structure of bad governance[1] -- A man in chains knows he should have acted sooner for his ability to influence the actions of the state is near its end. To deal with powerful conspiratorial actions we must think ahead and attack the process that leads to them since the actions themselves can not be dealt with. We can deceive or blind a conspiracy by distorting or restricting the information available to it. We can reduce total conspiratorial power via unstructured attacks on links or through throttling and separating. A conspiracy sufficiently engaged in this manner is no longer able to comprehend its environment and plan robust action.'
JulianAssange  subversion  wikileaks  leaky  government  panopticon  surveillance  equiveillance  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
F.A.T. -- Google Alarm
'Google is collecting a lot of data about how we use the web. The new Google Alarm Firefox addon visually & audibly alerts you whenever your personal information is being sent to Google servers.'
google  surveillance  privacy  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
TED.com -- Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships
'TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.'
criticism  technoutopianism  internet  surveillance  psyops  snitching  1984 
july 2010 by adamcrowe
NYTimes.com -- The Web Means the End of Forgetting
'...the Internet is shackling us to everything that we have ever said, or that anyone has said about us, making the possibility of digital self-reinvention seem like an ideal from a distant era. -- In the Web 3.0 world, Fertik predicts, people will be rated, assessed and scored based not on their creditworthiness but on their trustworthiness as good parents, good dates, good employees, good baby sitters or good insurance risks. Zittrain also speculated that, over time, more and more reputation queries will be processed by a handful of de facto reputation brokers – like the existing consumer-reporting agencies Experian and Equifax, for example – which will provide ratings for people based on their sociability, trustworthiness and employability. -- In the Babylonian Talmud, people have an obligation not to remind others of their past misdeeds, on the assumption they may have atoned and grown spiritually from their mistakes.'
internet  web  leaky  gossip  oversharing  ambientexposure  sousveillance  surveillance  datamining  traceeradication  memoryhole  identity  reputation  trust  disputeresolution  #socialization  #ubiquity  forgetting  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Guardian -- The night I was cyberstalked on Foursquare
'Standing at the front desk of a restaurant on the phone with a complete stranger was the absolute last thing I expected from a harmless tweet about meeting friends from the internet and a link to my location. "I like to hang out with people from the internet too. Maybe we should hang out sometime. What do you think about that?" -- I haven't been able to stop thinking about what happened. I'm angry. I feel like someone violated an understanding that all of us generally nice people online have – you don't cross the line. I'm also terrified. Who is this person? Who would do something like that?'
socialnetworking  location  ambientexposure  sousveillance  surveillance  privacy  stalking  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Why We Check In: The Reasons People Use Location-Based Social Networks
'Last week I showed my dental hygienist who else was checked in to the dentist's office on Foursquare at the same time I was, and her first reaction was concern about HIPAA (the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which regulates the security and privacy of health-related data). She decided no one could stop the patients themselves from exposing their own location; she just couldn't confirm to me whether or not she actually knew who those people were.'
location  realitymining  statusupdates  tethered  surveillance  sousveillance  equiveillance  plausibledeniability  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E08: "Eat, Drink be Merry"
'Eat, Drink and Be Merry begins with plastic, the plastic credit card and the concept of credit then leaps back in time to to the Dukes of Burgundy, which was the first state to use credit.'
documentaries  history  technology  plastic  massproduction  plannedobsolescence  creditcards  credit  quantifiedself  surveillance  finance  banking  mercenaries  knights  pike  musket  bayonet  war  infantry  preserves  pasturization  cannedgoods  FMCG  ice  airconditioning  refrigeration  thermos  rocketry  from delicious
july 2010 by adamcrowe
Global Guerrillas -- COERCIVE GAMES
'...[pierce] the organizational and societal veil of anonymity for these individuals by turning them into systempunkts (vulnerable nodes within the targeted organization's network that would cause the most damage if disrupted). Early work on this type of protest can be seen in the work of 4Chan's Anonymous and China's human flesh search engine. Both of these open source movements have shown to be surprisingly powerful at targeting single individuals (and poor at disrupting organizations). By using thousands of contributers, they are able to gather intelligence information on an individual: #Stalking and harassment #Identity theft #Denial of communication ...to really zoom the effort and turn it into a coercive tool, one modification should be made. It should operate as an online game: #Experience points #Quests #Competition -- Think in terms of this game running as a darknet (not visible to anyone but invited players and only those that have deeply enmeshed themselves in the game).'
internet  everyware  surveillance  immunesystem  darknets  communities  crowdsourcing  rage  revenge  smartmobs  dumbmobs  activism  vigilantism  cognitivesurplus  gaming  banhammer  thegamingofeverydaylife  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
SECLISTS -- Full Disclosure: Patriotic botnet with Orange's HADOPI software
'HADOPI is also the secret name of a French program designed to get offensive capacities targeting the Internet. In order to recruit every computer of the country in this patriotic botnet (like in China), the government has urged every citizen to install a software which will prove they do not download music and movies. But the software is in fact a backdoor... The first company helping the government to recruit bots is Orange... #1. Orange provides contents, such as football, tv shows #2. The Government says every citizen must install a software to prove they do not download illegal contents. #3. Orange provides such a software. #4. [TOP SECRET] Every computer where this software is at risk can become a bot for the French government. -- The cult of the dead HADOPI has decided to disclose this plot to the public.'
internet  security  orange  france  government  surveillance  trojanhorse  botnet  puppetry  1984  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)
'The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed Friday night. That is, everybody needs to get laid and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality and he has to a remarkable extent succeeded with a very poor deal. Namely, “I will give you free web hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time”. And it works. Facebook is the Web with “I keep all the logs, how do you feel about that?” It’s a terrarium for what it feels like to live in a panopticon built out of web parts. -- I’m not lamenting progress of a sort of democratizing kind. On the contrary, I’m lamenting progress of a totalizing kind. I’m lamenting progress hostile to human freedom. We have to fess up if we’re the people who care about freedom, it’s late in the game and we’re behind. '
networks  internet  socialnetworking  panopticon  surveillance  privacy  identity  facebook  rentseeking  sharecroppping  backlash  diaspora  rent 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Zachary Burt's Blog -- Games Criminals Play: How You Can Profit By Knowing Them
'In the course of life it is important to avoid letting people get levers on you. The cons learn their victim’s likes and dislikes and personal history, so that they will be able to forge a more “authentic” bond with the victim. Inmates often work in large cabals, colluding in their informational exchange. One other tactic they use is to compliment the guard. Compliments are actually a devastating manipulative tool, because they enhance the ego of the complimented. Because the ego is false, and impermanent, the complimented becomes less grounded in reality... By asking the guard for help, they improve the bond (after all, to help someone is to be of higher status than them – and this nurtures the illusion of the guard that *they* are the ones in charge...) In prison as in real life, if someone doesn’t actively speak up and say something, silence is taken as assent. When human beings touch each other, if the touch is not aggressive, oxytocin is often released, causing a bond to form.'
criminology  psychology  psyops  manipulation  incrementalism  surveillance  ego  narcissism  status  transactionalanalysis  persuasion  extortion  grifting  falseself  communication 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
New York Press -- Social networking applications like Foursquare, Blippy and SubMate seem like fun and games but pose a threat to civil liberties
'Not too long ago, if someone were spying on you, you’d feel creeped out. But now the concept of personal privacy is nearly dead. That’s right: Millions of Americans are obsessively spying on themselves for fun. By far these youth-marketers’ most awe-inspiring triumph is to paint privacy as a refuge of the unhip. An army of new-media strivers eagerly deploys corporate-friendly concepts like “social capital” and “migrating social patterns.” In reality, frequent corporate spokesman and new-media guru Clay Shirky cooked up these phrasings inside a think tank—they are lent a tinge of genuine popular phenomena, and parroted by the establishment media. “Privacy… is a small price to pay for peace, especially since we’re headed toward radical transparency anyway.” What Horgan and kindred spirits, like Shirky and Google’s Chris DiBona, don’t tell you is that intelligence is only good if you have the power to use it.'
socialnetworking  surveillance  panopticon  datamining  realitymining  happytalk  complianceprofessionals  1984  militaryentertainmentcomplex 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Raph’s Website -- Facebook rebrands the Internet
'#Step one: Facebook is going to make the whole Internet a community space. #Step two: Facebook is going to be your identity card for the Internet. #Step three: Facebook will aggregate this data into a new type of search. #Step four: Facebook will be your virtual wallet. #Step five: Facebook will push this into the real world, and become your id card for reality. -- But I left out the part where people create Facebook identity skimmers and stand in front of the movie theater; where your history of likes gets analyzed by a third party and turned into direct marketing spam; where there’s a data breach and your credits get taken; where you lose a job because you once liked the wrong kind of site; where companies start paying people to form fake social graphs (“friend me and get free stuff!”) in order to push astroturfing influence into social recommendations; where Facebook bans you because you got rowdy, and now you have no virtual identity. Welcome to a crazy new world.'
internet  web  facebook  opengraph  socialgraph  identity  sharecropping  virtualmoney  casinogulag  surveillance  panopticon  hivemind  idiocracy  bravenewworld  dystopia 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
VentureBeat -- Facebook steps up lobbying, deepens ties with intelligence agencies, FTC
'At the very top of Facebook’s agenda in D.C. is privacy, [Andrew Noyes, facebook manager of public policy communications] said. There’s much at stake. The ease of data collection and sharing on the web is on a collision course with privacy. The suite of projects the company unveiled yesterday at its f8 conference in San Francisco may spark further privacy concerns about the mass of data it will now be tracking on users as they traverse the web. To head off concerns that it is too cavalier with pushing users to be more public, Facebook made a savvy move when it brought longtime privacy advocate Tim Sparapani from the American Civil Liberties Union on-board last year.' -- Useful idiots are useful.
facebook  surveillance  corporatism  cronyism  militaryentertainmentcomplex  mercantilism 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
Times Online -- Can you disappear in surveillance Britain?
'Leaving the detectives’ office, Bond used a term to describe his feelings that he’s since concluded is inappropriate, but it gives an idea how strongly he felt at the time. He called it data-rape. -- The journalist and privacy campaigner Henry Porter told Bond that privacy is like eyesight, or touch: “It’s that important.” Phil Booth, national co-ordinator of the campaign No2ID, broadly agrees. “Privacy is not something that people feel, except in its absence. Remove it and you destroy something at the heart of being human.”'
surveillance  privacy  leaky 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Germany & US Integrate Air Travel Surveillance Programs
'Taken altogether, the idea of Western nations linking disparate security databases to create both an over-class of "trusted" individuals and an underclass of people who are (by definition) untrustworthy, provides a further polarization of civil society. Inevitably, those who work for large corporations will be increasingly advantaged within this security ambit, as large corporations will have the clout to make sure their employees are insulated from increasingly invasive travel restrictions. The West generally is in the grip of two trends. There is the liberating and truth-telling trend of the Internet. Then there is the increasingly authoritarian trend of Western democracies putting into place the most invasive spying technologies to regiment and harry their own citizens. We think the latter trend is partially aimed at controlling citizens in case economic times get even tougher and there is significant unrest.'
terrorism!  surveillance  panopticon  mercantilism  corporatism  oligarchicalcollectivism  1984 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
CNET UK -- Digital Economy Bill: Nine things you can't do any more
'#Change ISPs: French law prevents suspended users from switching to another ISP, and Ofcom is expected to come up with a similar provision. It's unclear who will be in charge of this blacklist -- a copyright offender register, if you will. How long will suspended users be kept on the list? Will it lapse after a set period of time, like a police caution? Will you be able to see your record, like a credit record? Either way, ISPs may find themselves forced to check each new user, which could make the process of signing up to a new ISP even more of a chore than it already is.'
uk  internet  censorship  stasi  surveillance 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
Fast Company -- From Addiction to Apathy: The Five Stages of Foursquare Use
'#Stage Four: Greed: Because Foursquare is meant to be a game, of sorts, there are winners (people who check in all over the place) and losers (people who don't). And as soon as you figure this out--generally after a week of just-for-fun use--the novelty wears off, and the competition kicks in. -- #Stage Five: Apathy: You've scored at least one week atop the Leaderboard. But since the charts reset every week, and you don't get as many points for re-visiting the same places, your moment of glory is fleeting. ...you kind of stop caring. What initially excited you about Foursquare--apart from being able to keep tabs on people you know, which you still may want to do--was getting "rewards" for living your everyday life. Once you have to start working for them (spending more money, traveling greater distances), you realize they're not actually worth it. -- That, or you start appreciating Foursquare for what it really is: a simple(r) way to stalk your friends.'
foursquare  gaming  location  grinding  feedback  lawofdiminishingmarginalreturns  homophily  tethered  surveillance  equiveillance  diminishingmarginalutility 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
Spokeo
'Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets.' -- 'Spokeo is a search engine specialized in organizing people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources. Most of this data is publicly available on the Web.'
surveillance  privacy  leaky 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
TechCrunch -- Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation
*sigh* Just another Aspergers kid trying to rid the world of his own social anxiety: 'Kazanjy says all those negative opinions/rumors are already out there, lurking in blog posts and comments. His site, Kazanjy says, merely condenses, organizes, and helps you refute those claims. I disagree, I think it encourages defamation by ensuring a forum.'
aspergers  socialanxiety  filters  nearfar  internet  immunesystem  autoimmunity  surveillance  anonequiveillance  equiveillance 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Umair Haque -- Unvarnished and the Economics of Antisocial Media
'Unvarnished is a social Ponzi scheme - borrowing reputation from another, to amp up one's own (until one's own gets trashed). Those economics are so 20th century, it hurts. Unvarnished is the endgame of the "social web". I'm going to mark it as the day the "social web" became antisocial. Increasingly, today's "social web" doesn't empower people. It empowers hate, exclusion, and polarization, to put it bluntly. That's as lame and brain-dead as what went on on Wall St a few years back: hurting others to extract value from them. Except, of course, Wall St actually made billions. Social media's as bankrupt financially as it is ethically and economically: a trifecta of lameness.'
criticism  socialmedia  surveillance  anonequiveillance  narcissism  attention  snark  griefing  rating  socialcapital  whuffie  ponzi  internet  immunesystem  autoimmunity  equiveillance 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Stowe Boyd -- Don't Be Afraid Of Foursquare, But We Need Circles Of Trust
'Consider a young woman, Chloe, who has a close set of confidants – say 15 friends, both male and female – to whom she is extremely close. She also is part of a larger scene of 100 people or people that she sees frequently, but knows less well. And she may part of a even larger sphere ... Imagine if her geolocational information was propagated in correspondingly less detail as her Foursquare posts moved outward through these circles of trust. Her inner circle might see exactly where she is -- a certain corner of a certain bar -- and also might receive that information in real-time. Her 100 or so good friends might learn that she is in the Meatpacking district, or Nolita, but specifics would be blurred. So if one of that 100 had been invited to the same party they might be able to infer that Chloe was there, too. But they would have to directly ask her to get confirmation, and she could simply opt not to respond. And that information might be delayed by 15 minutes or 30 minutes, also.'
nearfar  location  foursquare  socialdesign  socialmedia  socialgraph  trust  surveillance  equiveillance  plausibledeniability  privacy  security  publics 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Signs of the Times -- Close Your Curtains or Prefer to Pay With Cash? You Are a Terrorist
'The following is a real anti-terrorism advert played during popular UK radio show talksport, which effectively says somebody who likes their privacy and prefers not to be in debt to banks by using cash is a terrorist.' -- Video inside.
uk  surveillance  terrorism!  snitching  totalitarianism  1984 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Hipster Runoff Exegesis -- "THE ALT REPORT opens ‘TIP LINE’ 2 connect with readers"
'Carles invites his readers to make explicit the implicit surveillance they are already conducting, led onward by an administered proclivity for passive curiosity and vicarious fascination with famous persons ... and become actual informants, supplying him with information as if he were a Stasi bureau chief in charge of cultural subversives: Recommended TIP submissions: #mild misunderstandings that need more exposure to turn into over-exposed controversies... And so on. Carles's point of course, is to demonstrate how the media machine no longer needs diabolical masters to operate it ... Instead we create the material bases for our own ideological predetermination through our own eagerness to participate in the mystified consciousness and culture industries. By reporting on one another, we feel as though we have become more famous ourselves, more certain that every move of our own is being watched and evaluated...'
HipsterRunoff  gossip  snitching  stasi  celebrity  narcissism  performance  sousveillance  surveillance  equiveillance  panopticon  voyeurism  theadvertisedlife  fame 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Telegraph -- Hundreds more town hall staff to get police-style powers
'Almost 1,700 people, also including car park attendants and dog wardens, already have powers to hand out a string of fines and even take photographs of low level offenders under the Community Safety Accreditation Scheme. But the Government has quietly announced it plans to review the scheme with chief police officers to see how it can be expanded further. Under CSAS, a chief constable can give employees of local authorities or ###private companies### limited powers such as the right to hand out on-the-spot fines for offences including disorder, truancy and littering; stopping vehicles for roadside tests and confiscating alcohol. They have their own uniform and badge and can demand names and addresses as well as take photographs of offenders.' -- Under whose authority and under what law?
corporatism  fascism  uk  snitching  police  surveillance  mercantilism 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- The Beast File: Google (HUNGRY BEAST)
'Meet Google. The noun that became a verb. The world's favourite search engine, and the company whose motto is "Don't be evil."'
google  realitymining  datamining  surveillance  panopticon  DONTBEEVIL 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Signs of the Times News -- ALL UK Police Forces to be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners
Am I obliged to give you my fingerprint, Officer? Then I do not consent to giving you my fingerprint, Officer. Am I free to go? Am I under arrest? -- 'Police said scanned fingerprints would only be stored for a short time while they were checked and would not be added to any databases. "Identification is crucial to police investigations and giving officers the ability to do this on the spot within minutes is giving them more time to spend working in their communities, helping to fight crime, bringing more offenders to justice and better protecting the public." -- Am I obliged to aid you in your REVENUE COLLECTION activities, Officer? Under whose authority and under what law?
police  surveillance  tyranny 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
The Panopticon Singularity
'The tools of surveillance today are based on integrated circuits: unlike the grim secret policemen of the 20th century's totalitarian regimes they're getting cheaper, so that an intelligence agency with a fixed budget can hope to expand the breadth of its surveillance rapidly. Here's a shopping-list of ten technologies for the police state of the next decade, and estimates of when they'll be available. #Smart cameras #Peer to peer surveillance networks #Gait analysis #Terahertz radar #Celldar #Ubiquitous RFID 'dust' #Trusted computing and Digital Rights Management #Cognitive radio #Lab-on-a-chip chemical analysers #Data mining -- Don't think you can escape by going and living in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere. It is in the nature of every police state that the most heinous offense of all is attempting to escape from it. And after all, if you're innocent, why are you trying to hide?'
electromagnetism  hertzianspace  totalitarianism  panopticion  precrime  realtime  datamining  realitymining  surveillance  radar  rfid  chemtrails  trojanhorse  drm  telescreen  facecrime  unperson  memoryhole  panopticon 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Wired -- Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
'McConnell: "We need to develop an early-warning system to monitor cyberspace, identify intrusions and locate the source of attacks with a trail of evidence that can support diplomatic, military and legal options — and we must be able to do this in milliseconds. More specifically, we need to re-engineer the Internet to make attribution, geo-location, intelligence analysis and impact assessment — who did it, from where, why and what was the result — more manageable. The technologies are already available from public and private sources and can be further developed if we have the will to build them into our systems and to work with our allies and trading partners so they will do the same." -- Make no mistake, the military industrial complex now has its eye on the internet. Generals want to train crack squads of hackers and have wet dreams of cyberwarfare. Never shy of extending its power, the military industrial complex wants to turn the internet into yet another venue for an arms race.'
internet  hackersvsvectoralists  forcedmemes  cyberwarfare  immunesystem  fear  panopticon  surveillance  banhammer 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
Raw Story -- One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll
'In all, 23 percent of around 1,000 respondents in the survey said they would be prepared to have a chip inserted under their skin "for certain benefits." Around one in six (16 percent) said they would wear an implant to allow emergency services to rescue them more quickly in the event of a fire or accident. And five percent of people said they would be prepared to have an implant to make their shopping go more smoothly. But 72 percent said they would not "under any circumstances" allow electronics in their body.'
surveillance  bodymodification  RFID  chattel 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
G4tv.com -- DICE 2010: "Design Outside the Box" Presentation Videos
"We live in a bubble of fake bullshit." -- Ergo we must build an even bigger bubble of authentic bullshit.
*  thegamingofeverydaylife  hyperreality  gaming  psychology  collecting  loyalty  performance  incentives  achievements  rewards  experiencepoints  numbers  nudge  surveillance  sousveillance  socialengineering  ludotopianism  ludocapitalism  conformity  bravenewworld  idiocracy  attention  advertising  grinding  subsistenceclicking  theadvertisedlife 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
ASBOrometer - Measure UK anti-social behaviour on iPhone and Android
They all want locking up! ... In gated communities sold by Phil and Kirstie.
fear  class  middleclass  government  demoralization  socialengineering  uk  realestate  surveillance  crime  crimestop  immunesystem 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Boing Boing -- Laptop surveillance kid was disciplined when spying authorities mistook candies for pills
'According to the lawyer for the family of the boy whose school spied on him at home through a covert webcam application on his laptop, the boy was disciplined for eating candies that bear a passing resemblance to pills.' -- Medicine Cabinet: "What's wrong?" THX 1138: "I just feel that I need something stronger."
surveillance  telescreen  1984 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- Recognizr
'Accurate mobile face detection and recognition...'
mobile  augmentedreality  facialrecognition  identity  surveillance  facecrime 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Google Video -- Steve Rambam: Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It
'Emphasis will be placed on discussing the "digital footprints" that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person's likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person's actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity.'
internet  web  datamining  realitymining  identity  privacy  security  surveillance  sousveillance  plausibledeniability  socialgraph  psychographics  marketing  information  data  #storage  #ubiquity  leaky  panopticon 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Raph’s Website -- Gameifying everything
'Some will find this questionable on the grounds of who sets up the incentive structures... Others will see it as a big invasion of privacy... Yet another group will worry about the fact that the incentive structures here are likely to be based on psychological hacks and reinforcement tricks. -- ...we need to be thinking about what our accommodation is with these technologies and approaches. Almost all of this arises simply out of better knowledge of ourselves and our psychology paired with improvements in communications technology. And that is not a new problem—it’s an old one. Spotting [(manipulation)] has become a cottage industry, from Photoshop fails to political fact-checking. And we shouldn’t by any stretch think that games or game tactics are the only place where this stuff will be used or even most impinge upon our lives. ...the concerns that arise from gameifying the world apply in larger measure to non-games.'
thegamingofeverydaylife  gaming  incentives  nudge  ludotopianism  ludocapitalism  socialmedia  socialgraph  surveillance  datamining  sharecropping  grinding  subsistenceclicking  addiction 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free
'Aleks gives the lowdown on how, for better and for worse, commerce has colonised the web - and reveals how web users are paying for what appear to be 'free' sites and services in hidden ways. Aleks explores how web advertising is evolving further to become more targeted and relevant to individual consumers. Recommendation engines, pioneered by retailers such as Amazon, are also breaking down the barriers between commerce and consumer by marketing future purchases to us based on our previous choices. On the surface, the web appears to have brought about a revolution in convenience. But, as companies start to build up databases on our online habits and preferences, Aleks questions what this may mean for our notions of privacy and personal space in the 21st century.'
internet  web  advertising  datamining  businessmodels  google  intention  attention  identity  sharecropping  free  surveillance  panopticon  privacy  documentaries  AlexKrotoski 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Michael Zimmer -- Why Pete Warden Should Not Release Profile Data on 215 Million Facebook Users
'... just because these Facebook users made their profiles publicly available does not mean they are fair game for scraping for research purposes. ...the purpose of this public availability is to help people—humans, not bots—find [people]. ...my profile is only “public” if a human being takes specific and conscious action to find me. -- Warden’s actions, however, violate this implicit understanding for making profiles publicly searchable. Rather than trying to find me, Warden is systematically sought everyone, letting a script to the work of seeking and harvesting my data. There is no genuine desire to find me, to friend me, and so on. He’s just collecting data. The point is whether the 215 million Facebook users who now have some of their information in Warden’s database contemplated such harvesting and aggregating when they built their profile and configured their privacy settings.' -- Asperger's social web?
socialnetworking  socialmedia  facebook  datamining  publics  leaky  ambientexposure  surveillance  ethics 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
Wei Zhou’s Blog -- From dating experience to real identity crisis of the web
'Today we are not who we really are, we are what google says who we are. Everything is openly connected and we’ve been trying so hard to make things open: making browsers more open, more social and more you, making everything connected, making open IDs. Suddenly we found out: The more we try to design for “you”, the less “you” can express yourself freely. When we talk about user experience, we always say we are engaging in making people’s life better. Nowadays we’re even trying to embed the most intricate and sophisticated human emotions into the consideration of design: like religious needs and sexual needs. However we designed a huge system that ignore the most basic one: The need to lie. Or they need the freedom to lie. If we are really aiming to design a YOU centric web, this question becomes unavoidable and probably be the hottest one in the next 10 years: How do we design a web that people can have real freedom within?'
web  open  temes  surveillance  sousveillance  behaviours  transparency  privacy  plausibledeniability  lies  masks  identity  dignity  civility  psychology 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
BBC -- The Virtual Revolution: Enemy of the State?
'Aleks charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers. Yet, at the same time, the Web's openness enables hardline states to spy and censor, and extremists to threaten with networks of hate and crippling cyber attacks.'
internet  web  surveillance  sousveillance  equiveillance  disinformation  censorship  documentaries  AlexKrotoski 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
SkyMall -- Stealth IBot PC Monitor (USB)
'#Insert Into USB Of Any PC Or Laptop #In 5 Seconds - Nano iBots Attach To Windows To Begin Full Covert Monitoring - Remove USB #When Ready, Re-Insert Into USB to Retrieve Everything'
rootkit  surveillance  tools 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- RussiaToday: NSA and Google are partnering up
'Google is now in an open cooperation with the NSA, in order to counter China cyber attacks. Many other Silicon Valley companies have turned to the NSA in order to protect themselves from hackers from China and other nations. Webster Tarpley says that although Google has not been open to the government in the past, the reason it exists is due in part to the government.' -- In-Q-Tel
google  mercantilism  surveillance  honeynet  cyberwarfare  china  WebsterTarpley 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
The Daily Bell -- Terror for Domestic Repression
'The convergence of public policing and corporate resources is an inevitable sign of civic degradation. It means that all levels of society have been turned inward - on themselves - to facilitate the deterrence of criminal malfeasance. The result, unfortunately, is that the state can criminalize almost any activity and now has the wherewithal, increasingly, to enforce even the maddest conceits. Whether it is white-collar crime, the war on drugs or terrorism itself, the ability to gather endless amounts of evidence in order to find something - anything - that is provable in court is facilitated by this dismaying trend. -- ...the rapid degradation of civil liberties in America and in the West will eventually be counteracted. Unlike past episodes of repression, the current environment must contend with the liberating effects of the Internet, which is constantly and inevitably exposing the justifications that are being used to install the foundations of a surveillance society.'
terrorism!  surveillance  panopticon  authoritarianism  1984 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
RWW -- Want to Know Where Your Neighbors Are Spending Their Money? Bundle Will Tell You
'Thanks to a cooperation with Citi and other third-party data suppliers, Bundle is able to compile detailed statistics about how Americans are spending their money. To get started, you just enter your location, age, income and whether you are married, single or have kids. Bundle will then create an infographic that represents the spending habits of similar households in your neighborhood. From there, you can drill down deeper into the statistics. At its most granular level, Bundle displays where people are spending their money. My neighbors, for example, buy their electronics at Best Buy, Apple and Fry's.' -- Lambs to the slaughter.
economics  land  realestate  speculation  consumption  data  datamining  surveillance  sousveillance  status  financialization  credit  whuffie  socialgraph  socialengineering  casinogulag 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
SFGate.com -- Can your comments affect your credit? Yup.
'In hopes of identifying good credit customers, some financial institutions are tapping into the information you and your friends reveal online. The idea is that the friends you keep and data you disclose may help them make more accurate business decisions. -- ...profiles provide banks with insight into your behavior patterns - what you like and dislike, want and don't want, do well and do poorly. Creditors can see if people in your network have accounts with them, and are free to look at how they are handling those accounts. The presumption is that if those in your network are responsible cardholders, there is a better chance you will be too. So, if a bank is on the fence about whether to extend you credit, you may become eligible if those in your network are good credit customers. -- Having a robust online social network can also expedite loan acceptance. If you're connected to a lot of people who are great credit risks, it can speed you through the process.' -- Brave New World
datamining  surveillance  socialnetworking  socialmedia  socialgraph  socialengineering  class  financialization  quantifiedself  whuffie  risk  credit  bravenewworld 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Bruce Schneier -- The Eternal Value of Privacy
"If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" -- ...if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or in the uncertain future -- patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable. -- Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. ...we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.'
panopticon  surveillance  sousveillance  privacy  security  liberty  dignity  civility 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
danah boyd -- "Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media"
'The public and networked nature of the Internet creates the potential for visibility. We have the ability to see into the lives of so many people who are different than us. But only when we choose to look. So who is looking? Why are they looking? And in what context are they interpreting what they see? By and large, those who are looking are those who hold power over the person being observed. Parents look. Teachers look. Employers look. Governments look. Corporations look. These people are often looking to judge or manipulate. Given the powerful position they are in, those doing the looking often think that they have the right to look. But do they have the right to judge? The right to manipulate? This, of course, is the essence of conversations about surveillance. And so we argue and argue and argue about the right to privacy in public spaces. -- One of the reasons why people fear the technologies we make are because they make thing visible that we don't like.'
socialnetworking  socialmedia  behaviours  ambientexposure  surveillance  anonequiveillance  voyeurism  transparency  privacy  performance  signalling  civility  DanahBoyd  psychology  equiveillance 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
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