Author of Seven Seconds and Maximum Impact (aka Circumference of Darkness in the U.S.)
Posted in News on Oct 27th, 2008
from the BBC The government gathers more data on us than anyone else and has big plans to collect even more. The Home Office has drawn up plans for the creation of a single central database containing details, though not the content, of every e-mail, text and mobile phone call made in the UK and [...]
Posted in Research Archive on Oct 23rd, 2008
Just last night I was editing a chapter in the new book that involves real-time mimicking of human beings by computers. One premise is, by using everything that’s known about you and your friends through surveillance systems, this technology could effectively stand-in for all of you. We could all become informers without our knowledge or [...]
Posted in News, Research Archive on Oct 10th, 2008
Plan A, it seems to me, was to commandeer the lifeboats before yelling “Every man for himself.” Who knows? Maybe they’re right this week. As the watertight compartments continue to flood, maybe more water is the answer. -jwh from The New York Times It may be time to try a new approach, and perhaps to [...]
Posted in News on Oct 6th, 2008
An appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin operating a stringently limited version of a program that would turn military spy satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, and local government agencies. read more | digg story
