Cisco Poised to Help China Build Surveillance Project. Privacy, attention and political community. Physical metaphors at Hyper-public. Posted by Ethan on Jun 10th, 2011 in Berkman, hyperpublic | 0 comments Urs Gasser, the director of the Berkman Center, opens the Hyper-public conference with a discussion of a privacy ruling in his native Switzerland.
Swiss data protection law has led to a ruling regarding Google’s Street View product. To operate in Switzerland, Google must blur the faces of anyone caught in a photograph as well as license plate numbers. But they have to go further and eliminate any identifying information, like the skin color of people standing in front of shelters, retirement homes, prisons, and schools.