New Orleans Community Life Services, a community service wing of the University of Ottawa, worked with ACORN Canada in Ottawa on a fascinating project that is now starting to take shape and produce some interesting conclusions – and questions – about the ways that the placement of voting stations may curiously and adversely impact the …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Dragnet Nation Finds Personal Privacy Unobtainable with Some Tips
Little Rock One of my crew of personal librarians at the Alvar Street Library recommended that I read, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance by former Wall Street Journal reporter, Julia Angwin. Since usually they comment after I return something, rather steering me towards something, I thought I should honor them and their efforts by checking …
Google Corrections and Google Bombing: Privacy and the Right to Know
Houston The European Court has everyone in a thither about whether or not the great and almighty Google might have to make some effort to correct some of the reputational damage done to people by linking information to them which is out of date or perhaps rendered untrue. The debate now rages between what might …