Author Archives: amar

For those registered for the symposium, here are some final details before the event starts tomorrow. We very much look forward to your presence in Cambridge, MA for “Hyper-Public: A Symposium on Designing Privacy and Public Space in the Connected … Continue reading →

via Berkmaniac Wendy Seltzer Wendy’s draft paper on “Privacy, Attention, and Political Community” (PDF) Privacy scholarship is expanding its concept of what we’re trying to protect when we protect “privacy.” In the U.S. legal thought, that trend leads from Warren … Continue reading →

Technology is radically changing what is private and public in our daily lives. Our personal, professional, and financial interactions increasingly take place online, where almost everything is archived and thus is potentially permanently searchable and publishable. Cameras are ubiquitous in … Continue reading →

Rebooting Library Privacy in the Age of the Network David Weinberger May 19, 2011 self@evident.com Why library privacy matters Without library privacy, individuals might not engage in free and open inquiry for fear that their interactions with the library will … Continue reading →

“Nanolaw with Daughter”  by Paul Ford is a gem of sunny near-term dystopia, a glimpse of a world where ubiquitous surveillance, coupled with runaway copyright protection, produces a daily chore of paying myriad fines; generated, for instance, when surveillance cameras capture your young child … Continue reading →

Technology is transforming privacy and reshaping what it means to be in public.  Our interactions—personal, professional, financial, etc.—increasingly take place online, where they are archived, searchable, and easily replicated. Discussions of privacy often focus solely on the question of how … Continue reading →