Red Coat, Black Coat Update

It’s been a month since Piers wrote his piece on the future of privacy and the actions we may need to manipulate our ID profile to create the impression we wish. Here are some links to articles on the subject that we’ve bookmarked since.

Original Article: RedCoat, Black Coat 

MySpace Snoops:  http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/09/30/myspace_snoops.html

Someone’s watching you! Link

The ring that holds all your info: http://www.byz.org/~rbanks/movableType/webLog/trends/archives/005457.html

Even your trash will watch you: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5404730.stm

HP, spying and privacy: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/05/hewlettpackard_priva.html

Site worth reading: http://bendrath.blogspot.com/

US invents press tracker: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34872

Never assume that text is private: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71912-0.html?tw=rss.index

A device that monitors your offline media consumption! http://www.byz.org/~rbanks/movableType/webLog/trends/archives/005537.html

Mirrors that monitor and even talk to you: Link

Check this future watch concept: "HP see their watch as being a
gateway to our own personal information cloud, where data is stored on
servers rather than being lugged around in various miniaturised hard
drives and accessed via a high-speed wireless connection." http://www.slashgear.com/hps-crystal-ball-gazing-personal-tech-of-2016-102006.php/1/

As russell points out – it’s an old one but still  good one – when pizza companies take control: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/10/pizza_privacy.html

Hungarian airports and RFID: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/12/hungarian_airport_pr.html

Red Coat. Ex-lags rewrite their criminal history:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/17expunge.html?ex=1318737600&en=1acf42a6647e8e96&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Intelligence gathering from emails: http://billives.typepad.com/portals_and_km/2006/10/knowledge_energ.html

School goes bio-metric: http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/27/scottish-school-gets-biometrified-vein-scanner-style/

Britons: the most spied on people: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19509-2426874,00.html

Google and CIA in partnership? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4774

Surveillance, Identity, and Reputation Management in Games and Reality: http://bendrath.blogspot.com/2006/11/surveillance-identity-and-reputation.html
Posted by: Piers Fawkes