ETHICOMP 2004: “Surveillance-capable technologies in the workplace: some evidence of the views of the next generation of computer professionals”
Google-DoubleClick deal seen winning approval | CNET News.com: “Antitrust experts predict that Google’s purchase of advertising company DoubleClick for $3.1 billion will be approved by U.S. regulators despite vehement opposition from competitors Microsoft and Yahoo.”
EU privacy body to take months on Google probe | CNET News.com: “The European Union’s data watchdog will take another few months to decide whether Google or other Web search engines may be violating EU privacy laws, a participant in the watchdog’s meeting said on Wednesday.” I’m writing an essay on the broader context of [...]
PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE IN COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK: “Whenever individuals are being informally watched or listened to, they are somewhat inhibited by what they imagine others’ reactions to be. This is how informal social control works in groups. We tend to try not to upset the people around us, especially if they have the means [...]
Warren and Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy”: “These considerations lead to the conclusion that the protection afforded to thoughts, sentiments, and emotions, expressed through the medium of writing or of the arts, so far as it consists in preventing publication, is merely an instance of the enforcement of the more general right of the individual [...]
EFF: DeepLinks: “Luckily for the advertising industry, modern web users have begun voluntarily providing all their personal details on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Users of these sites happily upload all sorts of personal information about what books and music they like, where they shop, who their friends are, and where they live. [...]
EFF: DeepLinks: “Google Associate General Counsel Alex Macgillivray has agreed to attend the EFF Compliance Bootcamp on October 10 and to explain why Google thinks it is important that Web 2.0 companies learn the information we’re teaching.”
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