Links for 8/7/2017

Links for 8/7/2017

  1. Jonathan Penney: “Whose Speech Is Chilled by Surveillance?”. Answer: more people than most of us thought. And women and young people more than most. Intriguing and important research.
  2. New York Times:“As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency”. This is interesting, not just because some of those self-same elites want to switch off encryption for the rest of us, but also because it means that financial and other regulation — which depends on being able to subpoena records of corporate correspondence — may be undermined.
  3. Andrew Adonis: “I put up tuition fees. It’s now clear they have to be scrapped.”. Buyer’s remorse from the inventor of the idea.
  4. “Corporate Surveillance in everyday Life”. Useful insight into surveillance capitalism.
  5. Sue Halpern: “How He Used Facebook to Win”. ‘He’ being Trump, of course.