(This is, after all, what IBM's Smart Cities campaign looks like when translated into real life...cheesy soundtrack and all.)

How to defeat facial pattern recognition with makeup.

A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.

Drew Hemment's 2004 interactive art project bringing home the impact of pervasive surveillance. I remember seeing this and loving it and then forgetting what it was called.

Loopt went there first, but Loopt doesn't matter. GOOG matters.

"Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations." Not even sure this could be implemented, let alone enforced; either way, awful precedent.

For once, a positive outcome from latent perpetual locational awareness.

Because there's no way IP address-tagged queries can be resolved to individuals...

I fully endorse campaigns of sabotage and vandalism where such things are concerned.

Via Cheathco. It was only a matter of time...

"Do you check your surroundings before you decide to quickly pick your nose, or adjust your underwear nowadays?"

"How long until we...pay a premium for connectivity which comes 'snoop-free'?": My argument about the much more important digital divide - i.e. the inverse of the one everyone thinks is problematic - made concrete. Via preoccupations.

School bullying, 21st century-style: Facebook groups, cameraphone-recorded beatdowns, hopes the school bus surveillance camera will vindicate you...

"Compact, wireless, throwable 360° mobile display system." As far as I can tell, basically a vision grenade.

"Software- and hardware-based system for real-time monitoring of multiple surveillance devices, known as Strategic Operations Centers"

Two great tastes that etc.

Terrifying. What I wouldn't give to see my file. ("Care to explain this book 'Wreckers of Civilisation'?)

"Veil" sounds so gossamer, so shimmeringly innocuous...

"The true object of police is Man."

For that other project.

Fighting the tendencies that make a surveillance society attractive to so many.