Setting the stage Privacy was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. I have spent the last year talking with people about privacy and reading about what it looks like in our new network-connected world and everyone agrees: privacy is dead and it was the birth of our information society that [...]
Shortly before christmas last year I had an experience with the internet that left me speechless. The actual effects, besides possibly this blog post, aren’t exactly negative, but the implications of it, and the incredible ease with which it happened, left me a little stunned. To put it simply, my past caught up to me. [...]
The incident At the end of July a small PA lawsuit gained relatively wide coverage when Google, who was being sued, filed papers with the court that mentioned how satellite imaging impacts privacy. The story is interesting not because of what Google said, though that is what most stories focused on, but because of what [...]