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Recruiting for Focus Groups
I’m currently recruiting participants (in and around Edinburgh) for focus groups about surveillance and Christian faith. More details here.
Posted in Scotland, surveillance
Tagged bible, Christian, focus groups, surveillance, theology
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English people now for sale
Personal data harvested from GP and hospital records are shortly to be made available for sale in England. Today’s Guardian report highlights concerns of privacy advocates that data will be available for purchase by not only medical researchers but by organisations … Continue reading
New review available
Jolyon Mitchell’s review of my book, Theological Perspectives on a Surveillance Society: Watching and Being Watched, has been published in the new issue of Studies in Christian Ethics (27.1, February 2014). Journal subscribers (institutional and individual) can read it here. Sorry, it’s not available … Continue reading
Scotland’s Surveillance Future
The Scottish Government has published its White Paper, “Scotland’s Future,” commending a vote for independence at the referendum on 18th September this year. Surveillance is by no means limited to issues of national security but it is worth considering what … Continue reading
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Tagged independence, intelligence gathering, Scotland, surveillance
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“Too much information…”
Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker apps allow me share my diligence over New Year’s Resolutions with the world. The capacity to disseminate my progress via Facebook and Twitter is integrated as optional features. Should I choose to inflate cyberspace with … Continue reading
A surveillance Christmas
The biblical story of Christ’s birth is replete with surveillance. Mary and Joseph make their way to Bethlehem to fulfil the requirements of a census (no mere counting exercise but one riven with political dimensions). Shepherds are keeping surveillance over … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, military, police, surveillance
Tagged Bethlehem, Christmas, Israel-Palestine, surveillance
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Canaries to combat surveillance
Wired are carrying an interesting opinion piece by Chris Finan today. He sees the negative impact upon the reputation of IT services companies who have been entangled in the NSA’s surveillance activities as a primary motivator for them to press … Continue reading
It’s behind you!
“It’s behind you!” has connotations peculiar to audiences familiar with the British pantomime tradition. The warning perhaps takes on a new cadence for Google-dependent internet users. Google has bought Boston Dynamics to add to Google’s portfolio of robotics companies. Google … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, corporate, Google, military, robotics, surveillance
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The surveillance business, Scotland
Excellent BBC Radio Scotland programme featuring extended section on businesses in Scotland that are providing or designing surveillance systems around the world. Available on BBC iPlayer for the rest of this week.
Your profession and surveillance?
In yesterday’s Guardian Ross Anderson imagined himself as a professional in different spheres and gave a glimpse of what surveillance means wearing those different hats. So, the advertiser, police officer, lawyer, civil servant, doctor and banker “told” us how mass … Continue reading
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