July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[liberationtech] CfP: 4S, "Surveillance & Big Data Mediation" (March 15)
by Yosem Companys 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

From: Torin Monahan <torin.monahan(a)unc.edu>, Anders Albrechtslund <alb(a)hum.au.dk> Call for Papers (w/ apologies for cross-listing) Surveillance and the Mediation of Big Data 4S session(s) organized by Torin Monahan and Anders Albrechtslund 4S Annual Meeting (http://www.4sonline.org/meeting) San Diego, CA October 9 - 12, 2013 The b big datab paradigm signals an intensification and distribution of algorithmic surveillance across multiple organizational and geographical scales. More than an exponential advancement in storage and processing capacity, big data currently operates as a fluid metaphor for the potential of data analytics to intelligently predict and respond to the needs of individuals and institutions. Clearly STS inquiry could fruitfully deconstruct the technological deterministic slant of discourses surrounding big data so that attention could be drawn to the values being inscribed in algorithms, the profound materiality of cloud computing, the control dimensions of pervasive software, and the active cultivation of new subjectivities as people come to understand themselves through their data doubles. Surveillance is key to these processes, as the capture and processing of data is frequently oriented toward some form of intervention or control. Rather than viewing surveillance through big data as completely automated or neutral processes, this panel seeks to investigate the many forms of mediation and politics inherent in big-data applications. Possible areas of inquiry might include: B7 Data fusion, profiling, and prediction by security organizations. B7 The crafting of new subjectivities as individuals embrace b quantified selfb movements. B7 The social and political effects of b filter bubblesb erected by various search platforms. B7 Gamification of interaction with customers and clients as public and private organizations seek to capitalize on (and control) user involvement. B7 Activist and civil-society harnessing of data repositories and sensing devices to achieve progressive outcomes. B7 The optimization of urban infrastructures through b smartb information technologies. B7 Health technologies used for documentation, analyses, predictions and recommendations. Please email titles, abstracts, and institutional affiliations to Torin Monahan <torin.monahan(a)unc.edu> and Anders Albrechtslund <alb(a)hum.au.dk> by March 15, 2013. Torin Monahan, Ph.D. Associate Editor, Surveillance & Society Associate Professor Dept. of Communication Studies The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.torinmonahan.com NEW BOOK: SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Secrecy News -- 06/20/12
by Steven Aftergood 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Format Note: If you cannot easily read the text below, or you prefer to receive Secrecy News in another format, please reply to this email to let us know. SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2012, Issue No. 60 June 20, 2012 Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** DNI DIRECTIVE SEEKS TO TIGHTEN PROTECTION OF INTELLIGENCE ** HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE, AND MORE FROM CRS DNI DIRECTIVE SEEKS TO TIGHTEN PROTECTION OF INTELLIGENCE Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper issued a directive earlier this month to improve the protection of intelligence information and to help prevent unauthorized disclosures. The newly revised Intelligence Community Directive 700 requires a new degree of collaboration between counterintelligence and security activities. While counterintelligence (CI) was scarcely mentioned in the previous version of the policy on protecting intelligence in 2007, it is now being elevated to a central role and integrated with security. http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/icd/icd-700.pdf "Together, CI and security provide greater protection for national intelligence than either function operating alone," the new directive states. In order to combat the insider threat of unauthorized disclosures, the directive prescribes that "all personnel with access to national intelligence... shall be continually evaluated and monitored...." But since there are more than a million government employees and contractors holding Top Secret clearances who are potentially eligible for access to intelligence information, it seems unlikely that any significant fraction of them can literally be "continually monitored." Still, that is now formally the objective. A copy of the June 7, 2012 directive on "Protection of National Intelligence" was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under the Freedom of Information Act. The new directive has been under development for at least several months. It was not specifically devised as a response to the latest controversy over leaks of classified information. It serves as a reminder that the implementation of revised policies to address unauthorized disclosures of classified information (including congressional action just last year to establish an "insider threat detection program") is ongoing, possibly obviating the need for new legislation. HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE, AND MORE FROM CRS A 2008 report by the Congressional Research Service discussed the history of claims of executive privilege, including various unresolved questions surrounding its use. The Obama Administration asserted executive privilege today in connection with records sought by a House Committee. See "Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments," updated August 21, 2008: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/RL30319.pdf Newly updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has not made publicly available include the following. U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress, June 19, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32496.pdf Free Trade Agreements: Impact on U.S. Trade and Implications for U.S. Trade Policy, June 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL31356.pdf Madagascar's Political Crisis, June 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40448.pdf Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests, June 15, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33453.pdf U.S. Trade Deficit and the Impact of Changing Oil Prices, June 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22204.pdf Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and "DREAM Act" Legislation, June 19, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33863.pdf Federal Taxation of Aliens Working in the United States, May 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21732.pdf _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The Secrecy News Blog is at: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, go to: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/subscribe.html To UNSUBSCRIBE, go to http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/unsubscribe.html OR email your request to saftergood(a)fas.org Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html Support the FAS Project on Government Secrecy with a donation: http://www.fas.org/member/donate_today.html _______________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood(a)fas.org voice: (202) 454-4691 twitter: @saftergood ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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by Jim Choate 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> > Let's face it, shit like hotmail, AOL, MSN, and their cousins are really > > socialism in disguise. They allow the morons access to what they > > shouldn't have. > > Now THERE is socialism, deciding what others should have and want based > on your own personal convenience. Some people confuse "socialism" with anything that enables the "weak" to survive. They forget that if there's a profit in it, capitalists would do it. I agree with Jim once again; dang! [Fortunately, it didn't happen in a long time.] Mark

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