This week, we bust out the tinfoil hats to talk about the history of privacy as a human right, and why it’s important for more than just keeping your parents from knowing what kind of dirty pictures you look at.
Links for the Curious:
This is an article I wrote for a friend about CISPA, a piece of legislation that threatened to allow unlimited amounts of data to be collected from private corporations for the purpose of national security: http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/2013/04/24/why-you-need-to-know-about-cispa-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/privacy/Privacy_brand_warr2.html https://rally.stopwatching.us/announcing-stop-watching-us-the-video/ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR03523:@@@L&summ2=m& http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mHwra4TQUc
Next week, we’re going to delve into the world of open-source software and patents! Here are some links that should prime you for the discussion:
http://www.jwalkonline.org/docs/Grad%20Classes/Fall%2007/Org%20Psy/Cases/motivation%20articles/PERUSED/metaanalysis%20of%20extrinsic%20rewards.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24758791 http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a27 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/history/ http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.html
The pics of Brandeis, Watson, and John Cage’s 4’33” are from Wikipedia’s Creative Commons, the NSA parody logo is from the EFF and is also CCA, as is the photo of Roger Wollstadt’s dad.