ÜBERLEBEN IM NETZ

by gtdonovan on July 15, 2011 at 3:19 pm · Filed under Berlin, CUNY, DAAD, Deutschland, Germany, Humboldt, image, informationalism, kids, kreuzberg, network, school, skalitzer, youth

cyberenviro.org posted a photo:

Survive in the network

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The Local: Google-funded Berlin internet institute to launch in October

by gtdonovan on July 13, 2011 at 7:20 pm · Filed under Berlin, Google, informationalism, Internet, link, privacy, property, research, security, society

> From the article: “A Google-funded institute in Berlin to study the internet’s impact on society is starting to take shape, with the US tech giant company announcing on Monday it would invest €4.5 million ($6.3 million) in the project.”

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CBS: Homeless Children: The Hard Times Generation

by gtdonovan on July 1, 2011 at 10:19 pm · Filed under employment, informationalism, infrastructure, labour, link, poverty, security, us, youth

> From the story: “… it is estimated the poverty rate for kids in this country will soon hit 25 percent. Those children would be the largest American generation to be raised in hard times since the Great Depression.”

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Dept of Labor: 2010 Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers

by gtdonovan on June 8, 2011 at 5:42 pm · Filed under 2010, informationalism, labour, link, minimum wage, us, youth

> From the report: Workers under 25 represented 1/5 of hourly-paid workers but they made up 1/2 of those paid the Federal min wage or less. Among employed teens paid by hour, 25% earned the min wage or less, compared w/ 4% of workers 25 and over

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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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