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Weiye Loh

Privacy in Singapore - 9 views

http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/APCITY/UNPAN002553.pdf There is no general data protection or privacy law in Singapore. The government has been aggressive in using surveill...

Singapore Privacy Electronic Road Pricing Surveillance

started by Weiye Loh on 08 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Weiye Loh on 08 Sep 09
Magdaleine

Workplace Surveillance - 5 views

Link: http://news.cnet.com/Judges-protest-workplace-surveillance/2100-1023_3-271457.html Summary: A panel of influential judges are taking a closer look at the issue of electronic monitoring at ...

workplace surveillance

started by Low Yunying on 09 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Magdaleine on 10 Sep 09
Olivia Chang

Government surveillance - 8 views

URL: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-23-bush_x.htm The US government defends their terrorist surveillance program that monitors international communications of suspected terrorist ...

surveillance

started by Olivia Chang on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
YongTeck Lee

Public Seems Not To Mind Spread of 'Surveillance Society' - 5 views

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/33031/42/ The article talks about how technology is making it very easy for the police or the government to monitor personal things like emails. In cases where t...

surveillance technology government

started by YongTeck Lee on 08 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Meenatchi

Top Internet Threats: Censorship to Warrantless Surveillance - 4 views

Article Summary: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/wireds-top-inte/ The article talks about several Internet threats comprising government surveillance and the loss of users' privacy throu...

Surveillance privacy DPI behavioral advertising

started by Meenatchi on 08 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Weiman Kow

Think you're a good employee? Office snooping software can tell - CNN.com - 1 views

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office surveillance

shared by Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • More than that, Killock believes using such software can have a negative psychological impact on a workplace. "It is a powerful signal that you do not fully trust the people you are paying or perhaps don't invest the time and care to properly manage them," he says.
    • Weiman Kow
      Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
       
      the presentation group brought up this point.. =)
  • Ultimately, true privacy only begins outside the workplace -- and the law supports that. In the United States, at least all email and other electronic content created on the employer's equipment belongs to the employer, not the employee. Slackers would do well to remember that.
  • But Charnock is keen to stress Cataphora isn't only about bosses spying on their team -- it works both ways.
    • Weiman Kow
      Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
       
      Is that really true?
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  • Our software builds a multi-dimensional model of normal behavior,
  • the emails they send, the calls they make and the documents they write.
  • [We can tell] who is really being consulted by other employees, and on which topics; who is really making decisions
  • The software began as a tool to assist lawyers with the huge corporate databases often subpoenaed as evidence in trials but has now moved into human resources.
  • We do have extensive filters to try to weed out people who are highly productive in areas such as sports banter and knowledge of local bars,
  • Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
     
    Just a link on advances in extensive office surveillance - this program is supposed to "separate the good employees from the bad by analyzing workers 'electronic footprints' -- the emails they send, the calls they make and the documents they write"
Paul Melissa

Warning over 'surveillance state' - 9 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7872425.stm The article effectively speaks of how CCTV cameras and DNA database are threats to privacy. Though many states have reasoned them for being...

Privacy Surveillance

started by Paul Melissa on 08 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Jiamin Lin

Online surveillance among spouses grows - 3 views

surveillance online infidelity privacy

started by Jiamin Lin on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

Can Real-Life $150 Spy Glasses Make Societies More Transparent? | The Utopianist - Thin... - 0 views

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Spying Privacy Camera Transparency Panopticon

shared by Weiye Loh on 10 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The Roy Orbison looking Eyez will feature a 720p HD recording camera, microphone, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, 8 GB flash memory, and three hours of battery life. Using an iPhone or Android app you can transmit what your Eyez record directly to the web, or you can save and upload it later using a microUSB port. Here’s a promo clip of the glasses from ZionEyez, the start-up company developing them:
  • At $150 a pair, these glasses are cheap enough to become invaluable tools for journalists in volatile regions, especially those living under regimes who restrict free speech and press — where being seen recording video can be dangerous
  • the notion of more and easier surveillance will draw the inevitable comparisons to Big Brother — and certainly, the notion that our deeds could be surreptitiously captured by strangers, even friends, without our knowledge is an uncomfortable one. But some would argue that given the amount of surveillance we now face by the state, the amount of information we willingly volunteer about ourselves to corporations and on social media sites anyways, pervasive video-taking goggles seem like a natural stage in the evolution towards something like David Brin’s transparent society.
  • Weiye Loh on 10 Jun 11
     
    So what's Utopianist about some fairly snazzy, semi-affordable spy glasses that allow their users to furtively record video of the goings-on around them?
Weiye Loh

The Great Beyond: Lab sabotage deemed research misconduct (with exclusive surveillance ... - 0 views

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Academic Research Sabotage Ethics

shared by Weiye Loh on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Yesterday, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, issued a finding of research misconduct for Vipul Bhrigu, a former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, debarring him for three years from involvement in US federally funded research and from serving as an advisor to the US Public Health Service. The federal register carried the note today. Bhrigu, now in India, was caught on videotape sabotaging the experiments of a graduate student in his lab at the univeristy last year. And today, Nature releases exclusive surveillance tapes, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in Michigan.
  • Video: This video, obtained by Nature via the Freedom of Information Act, shows Vipul Bhrigu carrying a spray bottle full of ethanol into the refrigerator where Heather Ames had stored her cell culture media and contaminating her reagents.
Weiye Loh

Drone journalism takes off - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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Journalism Drones Technology Surveillance

shared by Weiye Loh on 22 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Instead of acquiring military-style multi-million dollar unmanned aerial vehicles the size of small airliners, the media is beginning to go micro, exploiting rapid advances in technology by deploying small toy-like UAVs to get the story.
  • Last November, drone journalism hit the big time after a Polish activist launched a small craft with four helicopter-like rotors called a quadrocopter. He flew the drone low over riot police lines to record a violent demonstration in Warsaw. The pictures were extraordinarily different from run-of-the-mill protest coverage.Posted online, the images went viral. More significantly, this birds-eye view clip found its way onto the bulletins and web pages of mainstream media.
  • Drone Journalism Lab, a research project to determine the viability of remote airborne media.
  • Weiye Loh on 22 Feb 12
     
    Drones play an increasing and controversial role in modern warfare. From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Iran and Yemen, they have become a ubiquitous symbol of Washington's war on terrorism. Critics point to the mounting drone-induced death toll as evidence that machines, no matter how sophisticated, cannot discriminate between combatants and innocent bystanders. Now drones are starting to fly into a more peaceful, yet equally controversial role in the media. Rapid technological advances in low-cost aerial platforms herald the age of drone journalism. But it will not be all smooth flying: this new media tool can expect to be buffeted by the issues of safety, ethics and legality.
Weiye Loh

Rod Beckstrom proposes ways to reclaim control over our online selves. - Project Syndicate - 0 views

www.project-syndicate.org/...control-over-our-online-selves

Digital Data Man

shared by Weiye Loh on 14 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • As the virtual world expands, so, too, do breaches of trust and misuse of personal data. Surveillance has increased public unease – and even paranoia – about state agencies. Private companies that trade in personal data have incited the launch of a “reclaim privacy” movement. As one delegate at a recent World Economic Forum debate, noted: “The more connected we have become, the more privacy we have given up.”
  • Now that our personal data have become such a valuable asset, companies are coming under increasing pressure to develop online business models that protect rather than exploit users’ private information. In particular, Internet users want to stop companies befuddling their customers with convoluted and legalistic service agreements in order to extract and sell their data.
  • Hyper-connectivity not only creates new commercial opportunities; it also changes the way ordinary people think about their lives. The so-called FoMo (fear of missing out) syndrome reflects the anxieties of a younger generation whose members feel compelled to capture instantly everything they do and see.CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphIronically, this hyper-connectivity has increased our insularity, as we increasingly live through our electronic devices. Neuroscientists believe that this may even have altered how we now relate to one another in the real world.
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  • At the heart of this debate is the need to ensure that in a world where many, if not all, of the important details of our lives – including our relationships – exist in cyber-perpetuity, people retain, or reclaim, some level of control over their online selves. While the world of forgetting may have vanished, we can reshape the new one in a way that benefits rather than overwhelms us. Our overriding task is to construct a digital way of life that reinforces our existing sense of ethics and values, with security, trust, and fairness at its heart.
  • Weiye Loh on 14 Dec 13
     
    "We must answer profound questions about the way we live. Should everyone be permanently connected to everything? Who owns which data, and how should information be made public? Can and should data use be regulated, and, if so, how? And what role should government, business, and ordinary Internet users play in addressing these issues?"
qiyi liao

In pursuit of email security - 2 views

surveillance privacy

started by qiyi liao on 07 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Reseena Abdullah

China Requires Censorship Software on New PCs - 3 views

The article talks about the software that the Chinese government has legislated to be installed on all PCs from July 1st onwards. The software is designed to "filter out pornography and other 'unhe...

censorship surveillance

started by Reseena Abdullah on 07 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
joanne ye

Obama warns about Facebook posts - 8 views

privacy surveillance

started by joanne ye on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Valerie Oon

players' nightmare: don't date him bulletin - 3 views

http://dontdatehimgirl.com allows women to post warnings about 'bad dates' to prevent potential heartbreak for other women. These posts can contain very personal information about the 'jerk' in que...

privacy surveillance

started by Valerie Oon on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Elaine Ong

Email surveillance by Congree - 3 views

started by Elaine Ong on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Jun Jie Tan

Judge Rules Against Wiretaps - NSA Program Called Unconstitutional - 3 views

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700650.html After 11 Sept 2001, President Bush commissioned a warrant-less wiretapping program. Since its exposé, it has co...

surveillance

started by Jun Jie Tan on 08 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Ang Yao Zong

Tracking devices easily available in Singapore - 3 views

surveillance

started by Ang Yao Zong on 08 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
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