Here's something from Slashdot I ought to work into my Privacy chapter to further drive home the point that privacy invasions, no matter how harmless they seem, can cause real economic damage to you: Privacy appears to be declining largely in order to facilitate differential pricing... The thesis of this paper is that what really motivates commercial organizations... is the growing incentive to price discriminate, coupled with the increasing ability to price discriminate.
Communication Ethics book part for Concreteness. (This is an automatically generated summary to avoid having huge posts on this page. Click through to read this post.)
Chapter 8 - Privacy has been posted. Privacy is found to be primarily a communication issue, and thus amenable to treatment in this framework. The next couple of chapters will be delayed (*cough* *cough*, oh yeah, I've really stuck to weekly here); I had an insight into the next chapter that will really clean it up, and for the chapter after that I just figured out how to write it this week, so there's a lot of work to do on it.
Communication Ethics book part for Dynamism. (This is an automatically generated summary to avoid having huge posts on this page. Click through to read this post.)
Today's chapter focuses on a better way to model communication for copyright purposes then the expression model. This will come in very handy later.
As you might have guessed, I still wasn't necessarily done with the essay when I started to post it; I knew I'd never finish. I actually just figured out how to phrase the final point a few days ago. I'm a little relieved, since it's been eluding me for about three years now.
'EFF, EPIC, CDT, ACLU and Free Congress have drafted a bill that's been introduced by Senator Wyden today, for a new law called "The Citizens' Protection in Federal Databases Act."
This is an excellent sign. I think it's time for the EFF et al to go on the offensive; fighting court battles is necessary and unavoidable, but you're constantly on the defensive and you will lose at least some of the time.
Communication Ethics book part for Programmatic Content Manipulations. (This is an automatically generated summary to avoid having huge posts on this page. Click through to read this post.)
Communication Ethics book part for Expressions That Generate Expressions. (This is an automatically generated summary to avoid having huge posts on this page. Click through to read this post.)
Communication Ethics book part for Non-locality. (This is an automatically generated summary to avoid having huge posts on this page. Click through to read this post.)
Communication Ethics book part for A Thousand Cuts. (This is an automatically generated summary to avoid having huge posts on this page. Click through to read this post.)