Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Your Apps Are Watching You
IT'S OFFICIAL: The Smartphone Market Is Now Bigger Than The PC Market
Well, that was fast.
Only three years after the iPhone launched, the smartphone market is already bigger than the PC market.
According to IDC, 101 million smartphones were sold in Q4, versus 92 million PCs.
Smartphone shipments, meanwhile, grew 87% year over year, while PCs only grew 3%.
Android vaulted past all contenders, including Apple and Nokia, to become the No. 1 smartphone platform in the quarter (Nokia still sold the most phones, with 28% of the market).
Apple's share doubled to 16% year over year.
All of this is good news for smartphone makers and supply chains and horrible news for PC makers and supply chains.
The PC market would have grown faster if iPads are counted as PCs. But that's bad news for the traditional PC markers, too, because iPads have already grabbed more than 7% of the global PC market.
Sam Ladner and the mobile work life
At Social Media Breakfast Ottawa yesterday, Sam Ladnerpresented her research on the mobile work life, which seeks to add to our current understanding of the smartphone and its impact on work/life balance, practically, culturally and symbolically.
Continue reading on this link: http://francis-moran.com/index.php/tag/panic-culture/
Body of Privacy Oversight Institution is a reality now
The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved president Obama’s nominee, David Medine, as chair of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. With this step, we are on the cusp of finally seeing this important oversight body brought into full existence.
Google’s Report on NSLs: What we still don’t know
Every year, the FBI issues tens of thousands of “national security letters”—or NSLs—demanding that internet service providers, telephone companies, credit card companies, and others hand over information about their customers if it is “relevant” to a counterterrorism or counter-intelligence investigation. That information could include the web sites we visit, the email addresses of our contacts, or even information linking us to our anonymous political speech online. This practice has been shrouded in secrecy, though, because the FBIgags recipients of NSLs—preventing companies from telling their customers that the government has asked for records about them.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/googles-report-nsls-what-we-still-dont-know
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Hello there
My name is Pedro, I come from Brazil. I'm studying Software Engineering in London for one year. This blog was developed as part of a college subject called "Digital Media Practices" and its final essay. It aims to talk over the influence and changes from the advent of the new media technologies (smart phones, tablets, web 2.0) and its impacts on the surveillance society and panic culture. It also aims to discuss if this advent intensified surveillance itself or only its sense in a global context.
The questions we shall ask ourselves are: we're being monitored all the time today, but has it been always like this? This extreme surveillance systems is a result from the new technological inventions and the broadening of the digital practices? And what is its role in the panic culture? What are the limits and boundaries of the surveillance system and how is it related to privacy issues?
Hope whoever reads this blog enjoys it. I wish you find it useful.
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