MAP 21 – a measure for self surveillance
Students that follow my lectures and visitors of this site often ask me what type of society I see for us in the future and whether that is a good thing. I usually respond to that with explaining that our present More...
Stolen Pieces – A Celebration of Daily Life
Italian-born artists, Eva and Franco Mattes, are showing off more than 10,000 private photographs they claim to have stolen from random people’s hard drives, part of an exhibit that also features fragments More...
First Robot Prison Guards Activated
Back in November, South Korea announced that a project to create robot prison guards was underway. And just as predicted, the robo-guards are ready for their first tests. Check out video (complete with prisoner/robot More...
REQUIRED: School Uniforms with Locator Chip Embedded
Schools in northern Brazil are now embedding their uniforms with locator chips that allow the tracking and monitoring of their students. Advertised as a “way of informing parents in case their children skip school”, More...
New Camera System Recognizes 36 million Faces in One Second
Every year we get just a little bit closer to making Minority Report a reality. Hitachi Kokusai Electric developed a new system for using facial recognition to process surveillance footage. Of course, this isn’t More...
Your Facebook Profile is Not as Private as You Think
Since the rise of social networking, it has become common for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. But many users, especially More...
Big Brother is going Live in 2013
Last year we wrote about a secretive compound to be constructed in Utah, USA. Not much was known then about the purpose of the complex other then it was a gigantic data center operated by the NSA. Now Wired has More...
Feed From Fame
When I wrote about Kim Kardashian being the first 3D-print girl I kind of promised to never mention her again. Well, that didn’t work out too well, since this is the 4th post – the 5th if you count the More...
Fake Facebook account of Commander embarrasses Nato
As well as their names, people routinely put personal email addresses, dates of birth, clues about their home address and personal and family pictures online. Some even state their current location, and messages More...
The SpeechJammer – Freedom of Speech
Just what we need – another tool to silence people. A device which can cut off human speech without the need for physical intervention; “The SpeechJammer” The idea is simple. Psychologists have known More...
All Wet And All Drunk
Imagine yourself being 20, all drunk at a party and you say ‘yes’ to the challenge to participate in a wet T-shirt contest. Nothing new here, happens all over the world and some of you might even have More...
Malls track your cell phone
Throwing oneself in a pool of frenzied people and fighting to purchase consumer products that have been slightly discounted: is there a better way to begin the holiday season? Well this year, malls will monitor More...