Archive for 'Concepts'
US Suspicious Activity Reporting in Historical Context
As I prepare a paper abstract for submission to an upcoming conference on national intelligence ethics, I’ve been thinking more about the historical context in which new federal standards for US “suspicious activity reporting” (the ISE-SAR) can be understood. Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are an increasingly important tool of “domestic intelligence” distinct from the [...]
Posted: October 29th, 2009 under Concepts, Main, Privacy, U.S., Watchlist.
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Surveillance News
I’ve added a new feature to this blog, a real-time feed of surveillance-related news items and other documents as I find them. There is a link to it on the navigation bar to the left. Comments welcome.
Posted: September 27th, 2007 under 4th Amendment, China, Code, Concepts, Corporations, Data Mining, ID, Law, Main, Privacy, Tech, U.S., Video.
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Surveillance Theory: Monday 2:00 – 3:30 IAMCR, Paris
I will be presenting my paper “Surveillance at the Edge of Chaos: reconceptualizing intensity in terms of discursive structures” at IAMCR 2007 in Paris (CP&T: Session 1, Room 3) next Monday. This represents a schedule change from the current program, which had me on Wednesday, session 11. This is very much a work in progress [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2007 under 4th Amendment, China, Code, Concepts, Corporations, ID, Law, Main, Privacy, Tech, U.S..
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China Communist Party School Gives Voice to Unusually Frank Analysis of Power and Surveillance
The University of Hong Kong’s China Media Project published a fascinating translation last month of an article by Wang Guixiu (王贵秀), “a scholar with the Party School of CPC Central Committee,” that has been “making the rounds” in print media and on the Internet.
Power monitoring is actually an act of checking on limiting of [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2007 under China, Concepts, Main.
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