theatlantic: The Mannequins Will Be Watching You The company claims that the mannequins are better able to watch shoppers than wall-mounted security cameras because of their eye-level perspective and the fact that many consumer will stand and linger close to the mannequins as they examine the display. Notwithstanding whether this supposed advantage is real or just hype from a company looking to sell some souped-up mannequins, it must be said that the two modes of surveillance *feel* somehow different: We may not love wall-mounted camera surveillance, but in comparison it seems quotidian, a concession we make to store-owners looking to both protect and promote their wares.  Read more. [Image: Shutterstock] And then they’ll come alive like in the first ep of Christopher Eccleston Doctor Who
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theatlantic:

The Mannequins Will Be Watching You

The company claims that the mannequins are better able to watch shoppers than wall-mounted security cameras because of their eye-level perspective and the fact that many consumer will stand and linger close to the mannequins as they examine the display. Notwithstanding whether this supposed advantage is real or just hype from a company looking to sell some souped-up mannequins, it must be said that the two modes of surveillance *feel* somehow different: We may not love wall-mounted camera surveillance, but in comparison it seems quotidian, a concession we make to store-owners looking to both protect and promote their wares. 

Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]

And then they’ll come alive like in the first ep of Christopher Eccleston Doctor Who

theweekmagazine: A new smartphone app called SceneTap employs facial-detection software and cameras placed strategically in bars and nightclubs to tell users the age and gender makeup of an establishment they’re thinking of visiting.  Is it an invasion of privacy for your neighborhood watering hole to install cameras and scan your face? Let’s be honest, says Violet Blue at ZDNet, this “bro-app” is designed to help “brotards” get liquored up and go straight to the bars “with the most chicks in them,” which is “sure to make women feel a little more like hunted prey” than they do already. News of the launch in San Francisco provoked so many complaints that several bars that had planned to participate backed out. More about SceneTap Makes me not want to go out again ever. ICK.
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theweekmagazine:

A new smartphone app called SceneTap employs facial-detection software and cameras placed strategically in bars and nightclubs to tell users the age and gender makeup of an establishment they’re thinking of visiting. 

Is it an invasion of privacy for your neighborhood watering hole to install cameras and scan your face?

Let’s be honest, says Violet Blue at ZDNet, this “bro-app” is designed to help “brotards” get liquored up and go straight to the bars “with the most chicks in them,” which is “sure to make women feel a little more like hunted prey” than they do already. News of the launch in San Francisco provoked so many complaints that several bars that had planned to participate backed out.

More about SceneTap

Makes me not want to go out again ever. ICK.

What I really want is to do this pregnancy in private. It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it. I do, sometimes. But I want complete control over those conversations: who I talk to about it and when, what direction the dialogue takes. In our society, pregnant woman are public property. Non-pregnant women are fast becoming public property, too. I’m not interested in being part of that. It’s making me want to wall myself off completely until I’m not pregnant anymore. Maybe even longer if politics keep moving the direction they are.
On Pregnancy And Privacy And Fear - The Rumpus.net

Source: therumpus.net

I got into this crazy fight with a paparazzi guy from TMZ – they were trying to film Michelle [Williams] and her daughter Matilda. I had said not to film Matilda because she’s six years old.

After [Michelle and Matilda] left, I went up to him and looked at him right in the eye, and I said, “Can I just ask you a question? Do you have kids in your life? I don’t know if you’re a dad or not, but do you have nieces or nephews, or people that you love that have children? Do you have that?” He was like, “Fuck you, I don’t have to talk to you.” I said, “I get it, I get it. I really just want talk to you about this because I want to know what about [Matilda’s] body language of being curled up on her mom’s shoulder that you think it was okay to keep yelling and talking to her? Because that was a little girl; she wasn’t a celebrity, she’s six years old.”

For that photographer, he couldn’t deal with me coming straight to him and talking to him like a person. Then he went nuts, calling me crazy names. At one point, he was like crouched on the ground and he called me a piece of trash. I said, “I’m sorry, I just have to comment on the irony of this situation, sir. You’re on the ground in an alley, and I am going to get into my SUV and drive away.
PopGurls PopGurls Interview: Busy Philipps of “Cougar Town”. Busy Philipps is fierce, y’all.

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In a starkly-written 73-page report on privacy in the digital age, the agency called on U.S. commercial data collectors to implement a "Do Not Track" button in Web browsers by the end of the year or to face legislation from Congress forcing the issue.

joshsternberg:

“Simply put, your computer is your property. No one has the right to put anything on [your computer] that you don’t want,” said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC, at a news conference Monday.

If, like me, you can’t read the full WSJ story, here’s the story in WaPo.

noraleah: I read this last night. A tale as much about the way college freshmen communicate (and miscommunicate) in the second decade of the 21st century as one poor boy’s decision to end his life. The Story of a Suicide In this week’s issue, Ian Parker gives the first in-depth assessment of the Tyler Clementi case, told through a series of exclusive interviews & IM conversations. (via newyorker) I read this earlier today at work.  I agree with Nora’s summation, but I’d throw in that it also shows the way young folks’ thoughts/views on privacy are changing.   A fascinating article, most definitely.
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I read this last night. A tale as much about the way college freshmen communicate (and miscommunicate) in the second decade of the 21st century as one poor boy’s decision to end his life.

The Story of a Suicide

In this week’s issue, Ian Parker gives the first in-depth assessment of the Tyler Clementi case, told through a series of exclusive interviews & IM conversations. (via newyorker)

I read this earlier today at work.  I agree with Nora’s summation, but I’d throw in that it also shows the way young folks’ thoughts/views on privacy are changing.   A fascinating article, most definitely.

Source: newyorker.com

We are not even aware that we’re seeing increasingly divergent images of the Internet. The Internet may know who we are, but we don’t know who it thinks we are or how it’s using that information. Technology designed to give us more control over our lives is actually taking control away.
Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble. I finally finished this book at lunch.  I cut it pretty fine; it’s due back to the library today!