NY Times: FTC Urges Update to Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

by gtdonovan on September 17, 2011 at 4:12 pm · Filed under COPPA, facial recognition, FTC, geo-privacy, geotag, governance, laws, link, location, pii, privacy, surveillance, youth

From the article: “the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday proposed long-awaited changes to regulations covering online privacy for children … The proposed revisions expand the definition of “personal information” to include a child’s location, along with any personal data collected through the use of cookies for the purposes of targeted advertising. It also covers facial recognition technology.”

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Google CEO on Privacy, and Natural Surveillance

by gtdonovan on June 1, 2011 at 2:36 pm · Filed under biometrics, facial recognition, Google, governance, informationalism, mobile tracking, nature, privacy, quotes, Schmidt, surveillance, technoature

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher recently interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt at D9. The whole thing is worth a watch, but two statements by Schmidt were truly exceptional. The first is his definition of privacy, the second is his framing of mobile tracking as “natural.”

Schmidt on privacy:

… from our perspective, privacy is a compromise between the interests of a government and the citizen.

Schmidt on (what I’m now calling) natural surveillance:

I’m very concerned, personally, about the union of mobile tracking and facial recognition. Because, mobile tracking is something that can occur naturally by virtue of these devices … biometrics, in general, will make it possible to do facial recognition in crowds.

I should have known it was mother nature, and not mankind, that created this form of surveillance … damn you nature!

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