Surveillance begets surveillance until the 7th generation
Posted by wendyg in Uncategorized at May 2nd, 2007
I’m blogging the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference for The Reg. First day’s report is here. Would in particular recommend reading Danezis on the importance of traffic data - a great example of something people are willing to surrender control over because they do not believe that it is personally revealing - but in fact is of greater value in surveillance terms than the content of most messages. (”Don’t forget your keys!”)
wg
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I just started a “Surveillance society effects” page on Blindside wiki - see
http://www.blindside.org.uk/wiki/Surveillance_society_effects
Sounds like you’re in the thick of the expertise there Wendy. Is it a broad spectrum of people, or is there an element of “PLUs”
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I have no way of assessing that. Wha’s like us?
There are definitely some of the usual suspects - Simon and Gus are cooking up tonight’s Big Brother Awards, Caspar Bowden is sitting about ten feet from me…but also here is a woman who tirelessly campaigns for privacy for victims of domstic violence and this morning’s panel laid out the troubles faced by a Mohawk community that happens to be crossed by not only the Ontario/Quebec border but the US/Canada border…
wg