Category: Privacy & Regulatory
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Cool Socnet Visualization from MIT’s Immersion Project
A previous post considered some practical implications for privacy and government surveillance stemming from the Snowden revelations about the Prism program. The point was made that some people who think they have nothing to hide could easily become ensnared in webs not of their own making, and could find it difficult to untangle themselves. Interest…
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Nothing to Hide? Or Afraid of a ‘Metadata Sweep’
This post first appeared on the Port Washington Patch. In a recent discussion of the Edward Snowden Affair with family members, two basic attitudes toward the government’s selective spying on U.S. citizens emerged: The Innocence Argument “I have nothing to hide, so I don’t care what the federal government wants to know about me.” The Privacy Argument “The…