Archive for 'Surveillance'
Surveying Surveillance in NYC
by Chase Clow & Z. S. Justus
Recently the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) over its plan to use 3,000 surveillance cameras to help secure lower Manhattan against terrorist attacks. The NYCLU is chiefly concerned with the data the thousands of closed-circuit cameras captures. They [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2008 under Counterterrorism, Surveillance, technology.
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Wikipedia as Strategic Communication
by Nicholas Brody
Wikipedia is becoming a major source of news and reference information for the American public. A Pew internet poll found that 36% of online adults consult Wikipedia. That number jumps to 50% for college-educated adults. Among educational and reference websites, Wikipedia is by far the most popular, owning a 24.33% [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 under Framing, Government, Media, Strategic Comm., Surveillance, Terrorism 2.0, technology.
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Virtual Democracy and Congressional Shame
By Bud Goodall
Pardon my rant. I say that in advance but without apology. Today’s New York Times article about the United States Senate vote to approve President Bush’s plan to grant legal protection to telephone companies for cooperating with illegal wiretaps on American citizens as well as to expand existing government spy powers [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2008 under Bush, Government, Media, Politics, Popular Culture, Surveillance, technology.
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How Enemies Could Use Our Wiretaps
by Steven R. Corman
The Daily Princetonian reports an interview with computer scientist Jennifer Rexford who claims that more wiretapping can actually help the Bad Guys and make us less safe. How? By providing a system for them to hack:
They can tap into an infrastructure the government essentially built for them. It is [...]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under Surveillance, Terrorism 2.0, technology.
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