Hi all,
I spoke to a researcher from Demos about their project in September. My
understanding was that it's a 6 month investigation and they intend to
produce a pamphlet about the surveillance society about now. I'm not
sure that it's that in depth but it is intended to inform. I think
Lucas's idea is a good one, FWIW.
Kirstie
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Subject: BBC NEWS | Technology | Do you know what they know about you?
"The average economically active individual in the developed world is on
about 700 databases", a recent BBC report about the spreading and
loosing of
personal data in Britain quotes Niamh Gallagher (besides Kirstie Ball
for
SSN):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7107975.stm
Gallagher is researcher at Demos, a "think tank for everyday democracy",
and
is working on a project called "For your information"
(http://www.demos.co.uk/projects/foryourinformation/overview) whose
results
will be published on December 7.
Interesting! Representative for the "developed world"? A German data
protection commissioner once told me that would like to map these
databases,
their owners and users in order to visualize the multiple lifes of our
data
shadows. However, at that time he was missing the resources.
Are other projects/results known from this field ?
Any hint is appreciated.
Best wishes,
Eric
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