A secure crib and a baby monitor are on the “must-have” safety checklist for many new parents. But when you… Read More
Category: Privacy & Security
Personal Rights in the Age of Omnipresent Cameras
By jstanley@aclu.org on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
George Orwell once observed that “the ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend… Read More
“I’ll Be Watching You”
By Brenda McPhail on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
Anecdotally, most people know that the video technology they use in everyday life is changing at an alarmingly fast pace…. Read More
Videoconferencing for Civil Commitment: Preserving Dignity
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Health & Medical, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security
Civil commitment (i.e., civil involuntary hospitalization and treatment) is sometimes necessary to treat some psychiatric patients, especially those believed… Read More
Snowden’s Lessons for Whistleblowers
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Commentary, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security, Societal Impact
In June 2013, Edward Snowden burst onto the world media scene. He had worked as a contractor for the U.S…. Read More
Your TV Might be Binge Watching You!
By Jim Isaak on February 7th, 2017 in Articles, Privacy & Security
VIZIO is reportedly paying fines for using TVs to track user’s viewing patterns in significant detail as well as associating… Read More
Alexa Called as Witness?
By Jim Isaak on December 29th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security
“Alexa, tell me, in your own words, what happened on the night in question.” Actually the request is more like,… Read More
Who’s Monitoring the Baby Monitors?
By Guest Author on December 14th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security
Guest Blog entry by Cassie Phillips With the recent, record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks carried out with hijacked Internet-of-Things… Read More
Big Brother/Big Data 2016
By Jim Isaak on December 1st, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security
The powers of big data, AI/analytics, and subtle data collection are now converging to a future only hinted at in Orwell’s 1984.
Who Do You Want Listening In at Your Home?
By Jim Isaak on November 9th, 2016 in Articles, Privacy & Security
With Siri and Alexa, you are being asked to “bug your house” with a device that listens to every noise in the house.
Eavesdropping Barbie?
By Jim Isaak on March 17th, 2015 in Articles, Privacy & Security, Robotics, Societal Impact
Should children have toys that can combine speech recognition with a Wi-Fi connection to capture and respond to them, and that potentially are able to record their conversations as well as feed them “messages”? Welcome to the world of Hello Barbie.
Who is Watching My Car — Car Monitoring
By Jim Isaak on March 13th, 2015 in Articles, Privacy & Security
The insurance company’s privacy policy does not allow them to collect the data that their web page claims this device will collect — so clearly privacy is an afterthought.
Who is Driving Your Car? Car Hacking
By Jim Isaak on February 21st, 2015 in Articles, Privacy & Security
A recent CBS Sixty Minutes program interviewed folks at U.S. DARPA, including a demonstration of how a recent hacking of… Read More
Technology – Society – Issue / Solution – du jour – Feb. 18, 2014
By luiskun on June 9th, 2014 in Case Studies, Privacy & Security
The intention of this blog-segment is to bring up a current problem caused by technology and discuss not only its… Read More
The Citizen Surveillance State
By laurajacob on April 19th, 2013 in Privacy & Security, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
Like everyone, I listened to the news about the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday afternoon with horror. I’m not from… Read More
You have to work pretty hard to make something private these days
By laurajacob on March 15th, 2013 in Ethics, Privacy & Security, Social Implications of Technology
Oh Google, I love a lot of your products and services, but this was pretty stupid. If you hadn’t heard… Read More
Philip Hall
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Homebase location * Ann Arbor, Michigan USA Email philip@faerberhall.com SSIT Roles (and years) * 2013-15 DL 2013-17 BoG Member 2015… Read More
Mr. Jim Isaak
By Jim Isaak on February 10th, 1919 in
SSIT Roles: Vice President, 2015; Blog master 2014-present IEEE Roles: SSIT Board (elected or appointed), IEEE Director, Member IEEE Technical… Read More
Piva, Alessandro
By Jim Isaak on June 10th, 1913 in
SSIT Roles (and years) *IEEE Signal processing Society delegate on the SSIT Board of Governors Relevant IEEE Roles IEEE Information Forensics… Read More
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