Category Archives: Privacy
The Art of Stasi Surveillance
No, these aren’t images of ironically dressed hipsters culled from the pages of an Urban Outfitters catalog but rather the uncovered surveillance archives of the East German secret police, the Stasi.
Photographer Simon Menner’s dicovery and display of this archive is not meant to be humourous, it’s a reminder to the viewer of the overbearing nature of […]
Office Theft and Employee Surveillance Limits
A reader writes VentureBeat asking if it’s okay to install surveillance cameras to watch employees after a rash of trade secret thefts in the office.
The answer?
Proceed with caution.
4 Kinds of Surveillance
There are generally four kinds of employee related surveillance explains Curtis Smolar, a lawyer representing small businesses and start-ups:
Work Related Data: Usually acceptable and generally non-invasive, this monitoring type […]
24/7 Surveillance Degrades Online Privacy
At a TedXObserver event in London last month author, activist, journalist, and blogger Cory Doctorow gave a talk outlining the ways we’re undervaluing our privacy in an era of full disclosure and 24/7 surveillance and asks the question:
“How do we get kids to care about online privacy?”
Doctorow states that Facebook uses “powerful game like mechanisms […]