Tagged: Panopticon
Panoptic Age: Entering the Pupil of the All-Seeing Eye
by Paul & Phillip D. Collins ©, Apr. 2nd, 2007 George Orwell’s 1984 captured the totalitarian vision of a surveillance society with frighteningly vivid precision. Years later, deceased philosopher Michel Foucault would expound upon...
Cultivating Criminality: The Centrality of Deviance To The Scientific Dictatorship
by Phillip D. Collins ©, March 10th, 2006 On the February 13, 2006 edition of MSNBC’s Live and Direct, Rita Cosby examined the growing street gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 (no...
Bruce Schneier: NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It
Good video from Bruce Schneier. A few choice excerpts follow: Follow that guy last month. The death of ephemeral conversation. Systems that never forget (9:40) …a public-private-surveillance partnership (9:58) … We have built systems...
Six 21st Century Technologies That Threaten Personal Privacy
By Christopher Ross Harrison, 2011-03-2 Where the debate over privacy rights is concerned, there exists a perpetual danger of being drawn into one of two extreme camps: One that would dismantle all security entirely,...