Forgetting the Internet. San Francisco (AFP), June 26 - Google on Thursday said that it is "forgetting" things in Europe to comply with a legal ruling granting people the power to have certain information about them removed from searches. Even though it was sunny, I knew something was wrong the moment I woke up the day of The Ruling. I didn't check the news, I didn't read the paper, I just felt something in the air—an electric current of negativity buzzing in my back pocket where I keep my phone. All morning it shook. It vibrated until it died. I remember it was sunny curtains in the window, the sliver of sky that could be seen between my backyard and the side of a warehouse behind my building. A glass of water sat by the bed, air bubbles popping on its surface after a night's rest. It was nicer then than it is now—muggy with clockwork downpours around 16h00. When The Ruling came down, I never thought I'd disappear.
The first thing I noticed was that my girlfriend stopped calling. Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am! Photographing Secret Sites and Satellites | Meet Trevor Paglen. Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology | van Dijck | Surveillance. Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology Jose van Dijck Abstract Metadata and data have become a regular currency for citizens to pay for their communication services and security—a trade-off that has nestled into the comfort zone of most people. This article deconstructs the ideological grounds of datafication. Datafication is rooted in problematic ontological and epistemological claims.
As part of a larger social media logic, it shows characteristics of a widespread secular belief. Dataism, as this conviction is called, is so successful because masses of people — naively or unwittingly — trust their personal information to corporate platforms. Keywords Big Data; surveillance; Prism; social media; metadata Surveillance & Society, ISSN 1477-7487 © Surveillance Studies Network, 2014. wearcam.org/sousveillance.htm. Steve Mann, 2002 Secrecy, not privacy, may be the true cause of terrorism Gary Morton once said that ``many people feel that the security of Big Brother is another form of terror.'' -- Gary Morton, Dec 08, 01 09:56:40 PM -0500, posted to CitizensontheWeb.com. It has often been said that the true causes of terrorism are oppression, bad foreign policy, and secrecy, rather than privacy. (In fact some have even gone so far as to say that they've felt more frightened of the soldiers of their own armed forces than of the so-called ``terrorists''.)
Secret organizations often run open-loop, without the normal feedback mechanisms that provide important checks and balances. Feedback is the simple process of observability-controllability like we find in a home thermostat. It is not privacy that is the cause of the problem. Blaming terrorism on individual citizens is like blaming the blown up boiler on the first few molecules of steam that escape through the first rupture in the pressure cooker. The Future of Surveillance in a Post-Snowden World | Michael V. Hayden. Michael V. Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. The following comments are adapted from his talk at the George Mason University's School of Public Policy on Feb. 28 for the National Security and Foreign Policy Lecture Series. A retired U.S. Air Force four-star general, Hayden is also a distinguished visiting professor at George Mason. This article is prepared by General Hayden in consultation with Patrick Mendis and Joey Wang.
THE SNOWDEN EFFECT: Edward Snowden has accelerated a necessary and inevitable debate in American society regarding surveillance. If the information compromised by former CIA officer Aldrich Ames and that of the former FBI agent Robert Hanssen can be compared to pails and possibly barrels, Snowden has ripped out the entire plumbing because in the course of conducting his espionage, Snowden has revealed far more than sensitive intelligence. Snowden has added a significant amount of drama to the debate.
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