Per Nick's fine invitation, see: http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/01/facebook-is-no-longer-flat.php
-tom johnson On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Dear all, **** > > ** ** > > We had a discussion last Friday at Friam that I would like to see > continued here. Many of us had seen a recent talk in which somebody was > using satellite imagery to track an individual through his day. The > resolution of such imagery is now down to 20 cm, and that is before > processing. We stipulated (not sure it's true in NM) that if I were to > follow one of you around for week, never intruding into your private space, > but tagging along after you everywhere you went and patiently recording > your every public act, that I could eventually be thrown in jail for > stalking. We tried to decide what the law should say about assembling > public data to create a record of the moment by moment activities of an > individual. We suspected that nothing in law would forbid that kind of > surveillance, but it made some of us uneasy. So much of what we take to be > our private lives, is, after all, just a way of organizing public data. ** > ** > > ** ** > > We then wondered what justified any kind of privacy law. If everybody were > honest, the cameras would reveal nothing that everybody would not be happy > to have known? Were not privacy concerns proof of guilt? No, we concluded: > they might be proof of SHAME, but shame and guilt are not the same, and the > law, *per se*, is not in the business of punishing SHAME.**** > > ** ** > > I thought our discussion was interesting for its combination of > technological sophistication and legal naiveté. (In short, we needed a > lawyer) In the end I concluded that, as more and more public data is put > on line and more and more sophisticated data mining techniques are > deployed, there will come a time when a category of cyber-stalking might > have to be identified which involves using *public* data to track and > aggregate in detail the movements of a particular individual. Do we have > an opinion on this?**** > > ** ** > > We will now be at St. Johns for the foreseeable future. **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Nick **** > > ** ** > > Nicholas S. Thompson**** > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology**** > > Clark University**** > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** > > http://www.cusf.org**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<http://www.analyticjournalism.com/> 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Twitter: jtjohnson http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com ==========================================
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