Bradley Manning: Info Hero

by gtdonovan on June 8, 2011 at 1:23 pm · Filed under Bradley Manning, brooklyn, gpoint, graffiti, greenpoint, greenpt, hero, image, NYC, tagging, wikileaks

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Bradley Manning: Info Hero

by gtdonovan on June 8, 2011 at 1:23 pm · Filed under bradleymanning, brooklyn, gpoint, graffiti, greenpoint, greenpt, hero, image, NYC, tagging, wikileaks

cyberenviro.org posted a photo:

"Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst, is accused of leaking a video showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. He is also charged with sharing the documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and embarrassing US diplomatic cables, with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks." — bradleymanning.org

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Google CEO on Privacy, and Natural Surveillance

by gtdonovan on June 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm · Filed under biometrics, facial recognition, Google, governance, informationalism, mobile tracking, nature, privacy, quotes, Schmidt, surveillance, technoature

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher recently interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt at D9. The whole thing is worth a watch, but two statements by Schmidt were truly exceptional. The first is his definition of privacy, the second is his framing of mobile tracking as “natural.”

Schmidt on privacy:

… from our perspective, privacy is a compromise between the interests of a government and the citizen.

Schmidt on (what I’m now calling) natural surveillance:

I’m very concerned, personally, about the union of mobile tracking and facial recognition. Because, mobile tracking is something that can occur naturally by virtue of these devices … biometrics, in general, will make it possible to do facial recognition in crowds.

I should have known it was mother nature, and not mankind, that created this form of surveillance … damn you nature!

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