Tag: Privacy
Biometrics used for evidence
December 19th, 2009, No Comments
Cory Doctrow is one of my favorite authors. His book Little Brother is wonderfully subversive. In a recent post, he refers to a story about an LAPD officer who followed a potential suspect in order to gather DNA to help with a conviction. This is standard CSI kind of stuff – a few years ago [...]
Do no evil
December 10th, 2009, No Comments
There were two significant news articles relating to privacy this week. First, Eric Shmidt, the CEO of Google said the following with respect to privacy:
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
Really? I can’t imagine a scarier statement from a company [...]
Big Brother is Watching You
November 25th, 2009, No Comments
Invariably, whenever people talk about biometrics, the spectre of Big Brother is brought up. 1984, by George Orwell is one of my top five favorite books, so I am sensitive to this criticism. I think the book is a wonderful cautionary tale, and I read it almost every year. In fact, I recently had this [...]
