The Panoptic Studio is a new body scanner created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that will be used to understand body language in real situations. The scanner, which looks like something
The long arm of the law wants ever more eyes, if you'll pardon the gruesome metaphor. The UK government recently unveiled an attempt to legalize "draconian state surveillance powers." US voices keep c
The powers that be want to control your phones and your drones. And who can blame them? It was inevitable. Of course they're upset that smartphones are making it hard to catch speeders. Of course man
The most exciting promise of Big Data—and if you hate that term, you're not alone, but I think we're stuck with it now—is this: the data collection happening on an increasingly gargantuan scale, p
Anonymity: it's all the rage--Whisper, Secret--and it's rage-inducing. A Brazilian court has ruled that Secret must be removed from app stores there, and existing installs remotely wiped. The UK's Hou
2013: "A government task force is preparing legislation that would pressure companies such as FaceÂbook and Google to enable law enforcement officials to intercept online communications as they occur
In honor of the Fourth of July, let's talk a little about how horrifically paranoid and counterproductive the US government has become. And I'm not even talking about Congress! Instead I mean our old
"Power tends to corrupt," said <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton">Lord Acton</a>, "and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
The sexism needs
Everyone is worried about the wrong things. Since Edward Snowden exposed the incipient NSA <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/welcome-to-the-panopticon/">panopticon</a>, the civil libertarians
Imagine that one day you came home to find a shiny little bubble of one-way glass in an upper corner of every single room, and a notice left on your kitchen table: "<em>As required by the Safe Society
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.parstream.com/">ParStream</a> And <a target="_blank" href="http://www.panopticon.com/">Panopticon</a> are partnering to offer data analytics and data visualization
Your government is worried. The world is "going dark." Once upon a time, telephones were the only way to talk to someone far away, and the authorities could wiretap any phone they wanted. Nowadays, th
How's this for synchronicity: Google Glass <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/17/a-day-with-glass-first-impressions-of-the-early-days-of-googles-latest-moonshot/">started shipping</a> on the same
"First you see video. Then you wear video. Then you eat video. Then you be video." -- <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan">Pat Cadigan</a>, <em>Pretty Boy Crossover</em>
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