On passing through the immigration control at the airport in Tehran, she was asked by the officers if she has a Facebook account. When she said “no”, the officers pulled up a laptop and searched for her name on Facebook. They found her account and noted down the names of her Facebook friends.
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The Internet of Things: A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID
The adoption of he technologies of the City Control is not inevitable, nor something that we must kindly accept nor sleepwalk into. Each of us can help contribute to building technologies of trust and empower ourselves in the age of mass surveillance and ambient technologies.
Map of railway networks
Because I love trains. And am drawn to understanding how we are connected. Or not. From the New Scientist‘s article on our connected earth.
Is changing names enough when you post images online?
What about their faces? These photos are online for everyone to see. The book is on Amazon.com. Doesn’t this assume that Rwandans cannot access this article and these images? Or that they have no friends or relatives in other countries with better access?
The Social Life of Routers
Interesting article in the Technology Review: “The Social Life of Routers: How a 1960s sociology experiment could hold the key to better Internet routing“. It’s about how sociologist Stanley Milgram’s research into social networks may provide clues on ways to better transmit data across the Internet. Milgram gave volunteers the task of forwarding a letter [...]
Communications guide for networks
Just finished posting the first draft of a communication guide for telecentre networks on my blog on the telecentre.org website. People who manage distributed teams will also find some good stuff in it. I’ll be developing some of the concepts here, but in a more generic form. Especially the eavesdropping model — a great alternative [...]
Network mapping and analysis for human rights
Skye Bender-deMoll’s Network Analysis and Mapping Report (April 2008) examines how network analysis and network mapping can facilitate human rights work. It introduces non-academics to network concepts, gives some examples of this work in practice, discusses risks and challenges, and provides a series of recommendations. The report was prepared for the Science and Human Rights [...]