Category: Surveillance
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Privacy Cynicism among Data Professionals
Recent forecasts indicate that the global market for “big data” analytics in the education sector will exceed $50 billion by 2030, with higher education accounting for approximately half of the revenue generated from software and services for data analytics. Higher education institutions, now essential producers and consumers of big data, are undergoing a transformative re-envisioning…
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Call for Papers: ICA-Preconference on Comparative Privacy and the Literacies of a Networked Age
For those of you who would like to spend a couple of nice spring days in the lovely city of Mulhouse in eastern France while digging deep into questions related to how thinking about privacy from a comparative lens can enhance our understanding of privacy and related competencies, here is a nice opportunity for doing…
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Why “notice and choice” approaches to privacy reduce our privacy
In a recently published article, we (Lemi Baruh and Mihaela Popescu) discuss the limitations of reliance on market mechanisms for privacy protection. Self-management frameworks such as “notice or choice” are inherently biased towards 1) reducing the level of privacy enjoyed by the members of the society and 2) creating privacy inequities (i.e., privacy haves and have…
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Fulltext of New Article on Privacy Protection in Mobile Environments
A new article entitled “Captive But Mobile: Privacy Concerns and Remedies for the Mobile Environment” is now published in The Information Society. Authors: Mihaela Popescu (California State University, San Bernardino) and Lemi Baruh (Koç University, Istanbul) Abstract We use the legal framework of captive audience to examine the Federal Trade Commission’s 2012 privacy guidelines as applied…
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What Your Communication Metadata Says About You?
A few weeks ago, when information about the National Security Agency’s (U.S.) phone surveillance program surfaced, the U.S. President Obama was quick to announce that “nobody is listening to your telephone calls”. It was rather a little “harmless” system that collected metadata about individuals’ phone calls. We have been hearing similar claims about electronic surveillance…
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Privacy, Literacy, and Awareness Paradox in Big Data Ecosystems
The abstract and a copy of the presentation that we (Mihaela Popescu & Lemi Baruh) made in IAMCR conference in Dublin are available below. The paper introduces the concept of “awareness paradox” to discuss privacy literacy in an era of Big Data analytics. Thanks to all listeners for their responses and questions. The full paper…
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Freedom-Not-Fear, Day of Protest
The Freedom-Not-Fear movement, a group of European citizens concerned with growing expansion of surveillance in the post 9/11 era of “war on terror” is taking their protest to the EU capital Brussels on September 17, 2011. The movement draws attention to how the climate of fear instilled by the vivid imagery of planes crashing into…
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Farewell to IAMCR 2011
This week, esteemed friends from Kadir Has University, Istanbul successfully hosted a five-day IAMCR conference. I was proud to be a part of it, met some very interesting colleagues, and listened to even more interesting papers presented throughout the conference. Congratulations to IAMCR, the local organizing committee at Kadir Has University, and Delano for bringing…
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Presentation at New Media & Interactivity Conference
On April 29, 2010, Mihaela Popescu and I will be presenting the International New Media & Interactivity Conference held at Marmara University, Istanbul. Below is the copy of the presentation. We hope you enjoy. Surveillance and Targeting on Prezi
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New issue of Çizgidışıdergi is out
A new Turkish journal called Çizgidışıdergi is out with its third issue. I also had the pleasure of writing a short article titled “Benibendendahaiyibilenler.com: Etkleşimli Ortamda Tüketici Gözetimi (Surveillance) ve Kimlik” [Roughly translated as ThosewhoknowmebetterthanIdo.com: Consumer Surveillance in Interactive Media]. The issue is available for free download.
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