Living in the New New Normal
Please note: This post veers a bit outside my usual topics for this blog, so you can read the post in full on Medium. It’s the year 2019.…
Tag: surveillance
On Business Models & Incentives
We’ve been discussing ethics & responsibility in IoT specifically, and business more generally, a lot lately. This seems more relevant than ever today, simply because we see so…
We’re all under surveillance – where to go from here?
Since the seemingly never-ending series of revelations about mass surveillance of citizens in the Western democracies by their governments (or indirectly by their partners through data exchange)…
The frustrating state of affairs: Merkel’s government & blanket surveillance
Every day we learn more about the role the German government and intelligence services play in surveillance of very dubious legality in Germany. We’ve been learning that the…
ATT & Cargo Cults
Image by One Laptop Per Child (CC by) As BoingBoing reports, a leaked memo indicates that AT&T will introduce a creepy and stupid policy: If a user…
Breaking the Banksy: First interview?
A new Banksy mural ‘One Nation Under CCTV’ painted next to a CCTV camera at a Post Office yard in the West End. (Image: Dailymail.co.uk) Half the world,…
Did Deutsche Telekom Track Journalists’ Movements?
Over the last couple of weeks, a major privacy scandal has been unfolding in Germany: Deutsche Telekom – the company that also monopolized use of the a certain…