As Jad Abumrad observed during Radiolab’s June 18, 2015 broadcast (“Eye in the Sky”), the arguments in favor of surveillance technology tend to be concrete, while the arguments against it tend to be abstract. He and Robert Krulwich were interviewing Ross McNutt, president of Persistent Surveillance, about “Angel Fire,” the aerial surveillance system developed by McNutt’s company […]
Because I’m a hermit, there are many days when the only conversations I have that don’t involve my cat sound a lot like this: Me: Okay, Google Now. Moto X: (recognition tone) Me: Navigate to the Fresh Market. Moto X: Navigating to the Fresh Market. Beyond the obvious that I pay too much for groceries and don’t own an iPhone, this should tell […]
A few days ago, I received an unsolicited group email from an acquaintance (again) that displayed all several dozen recipients’ addresses in the header’s “TO” field (again). I’d asked to be removed from distribution previously, so this time I tried a different approach, pointing out the advantages of placing group email addresses in the “BCC” field … contact information kept confidential, […]
