Our next game project has just kicked off development properly, and has a theme of privacy, security and other things teens need to know about as they muck about on SNSes and in the CCTV-soaked streets of Britain.
Interestingly, as I look around for source material, quantities of the stuff is jumping out. There's finally some push-back out there to Britain's silent-and-deadly database state, but what kind of momentum it can gather is yet to be seen. Making a note of a few interesting ones here.
Lords: rise of CCTV is threat to freedom
World's most pervasive surveillance undermines basic liberties, say peers
"...the report is silent on proposals from Jacqui Smith, the home
secretary, for a "superdatabase" tracking everybody's emails, calls,
texts and internet use, and from Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to
lower barriers on the widespread sharing of personal data across the
public sector."
(RUN, YOU FOOLS)
Interesting to see it's the conservatives who are pushing back on this data retention, which means the people we have in power are further to the right than the UK's conservative aristocracy. It's jawdropping.
4 Realistic Things You Should Know on International Data Privacy Day
"We're not going to focus on how to get your tin foil hat to use PGP
encryption, we've got a short list of things that all of us
realistically should know about for a baseline of online privacy
awareness."
Facebook Plans to Make Money by Selling Your Data
"Starting this spring, companies will be able to selectively target
Facebook's members in order to research the appeal of new products
through a polling system called Engagement Ads..."
8 Tools to Track Your Footprints on the Web
"Although search engines provide a great starting point when you're
searching for someone online, with all of the new social sites that
have popped up over the past few years, they're often just not enough."
Surveillanceware, the next big thing?
The Unforeseen Consequences of the Social Web
"The thought that germinated in an instant can be immortalized in perpetuity on the Web."
UK Approves Police Hacking Home Computers
"The UK's Home Office is supporting a proposal that would allow British
police or MI5 agents to hack home, office and other private computers
without a warrant to intercept e-mail traffic and monitor a user's
other computer activities."
Today, suspected terrorists. Tomorrow, filesharers. Day after, you?
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