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This is from the Center for Investigative Reporting, which did a radio and television documentary on the use of intelligence gathering on citizens by the government. It has a variety of interviews from the documentary. It is also a book by Robert J. O'Harrow, Jr. The existence of the networks to track people and their purchases doesn't surprise me. When you get a credit report to buy a car, or rent an apartment your landlord can see every credit card, student loan, or late payment. I wanted to listen to the documentary but it was only in Real Audio format and I don't have the Real Audio player installed on my computer. If you have a public blog, myspace, facebook or any other social networking site, its no longer astonishing to find out employers will look for these when hiring new employees, or that they may be used for data mining.
The website did not note the last time it was updated.
http://epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/#introduction
Total (Terrorism) Infromation Awareness (TIA) Last update in 2005.
This is about system that would collect informaiton on citizens without any prior reason or wrongdoing. It wouldn't give people the right to be left alone. It would have housed peoples medical records, to their gait, and would have been able to recognize a persons face from a distance. The government cut the funding for this data mining program in2003. The article points out that it doesn't mean they have stopped producing this kind of database.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ - This video is no longer avaliable due to a copyright violation.
Discussion Topic Readings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ - Is Privacy Dead?
Possible to protect privacy and security at the same time. One example is using the "naked' x-ray machine by projecting the contraband on a sexless manaquin. I thought it was interesting the point he made that people want to control their exposure and not their privacy. Even with the use of cameras, I know recently it was a hot topic in Pittsburgh. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07178/797429-53.stm
Here is a link from a local blog on the project: http://pittsblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/pittsburgh-panopticon.html
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I find the varying responses to data mining efforts like this really fascinating. They run from people who see it as a huge invasion of privacy to people who feel that they are not an issue for those who don't break laws.
I agree. Personally, I think its an invasion of privacy, but I'm not shocked or surprised that it goes on.
A couple of years ago, I was working at a college bookstore, and my boss started having me check out student applicants' Facebook profiles. Some of the more "interesting" kids were quickly taken out of consideration.
How can you check out Facebook profiles without their creators' permission? I use Facebook, and it always tells me that I can't see someone's profile unless that person agrees to be my friend.
I am worried about this, because although I don't have anything remotely illegal or immoral in my profile, I do have my home address on there (so my friends can send me Christmas cards) and lots of pictures of myself and my children.
Are you telling me that strangers can see my children's pictures and know where they live?
As for landlords knowing how much you've borrowed in student loans and so on, I don't like that idea much, either. Since I live in the same building with my landlord and landlady, I actually socialize with them, and it's embarrassing to know that they have access to that information. I think it also allows them to exploit me. Basically, they have complete control over my life, since they know that (although I always pay my rent on time) I can't afford to move. How come I didn't get to read up on their history of shoddy maintenance work? Why is it the little guys who always get the short end of the stick when the big guys are far more dangerous?
I did a quick Google search on Facebook private profiles and apparently people have come up with hacks to see private profiles. The way I see it, as soon as privacy settings are changed or made "safer" by Facebook, people will find a way to break them. The best way to approach the internet is to just know that NOTHING you post is private.
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