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Posts Tagged ‘privacy’

Retrospective Facial Recognition

For any given culture what are the drivers and mechanisms for obscuring / censoring portions of content? How will the recording and pixellation of pornography …
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Sk8 Tehran

20 Mar 2010
In: Street Hacks, Tehran
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Hacked together skate park on the edge of Tehran. My guide for the day anonymised.
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A Day in the Life, Simulated in a Day

26 Feb 2010
In: Chongqing, Research Methods
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One of the slides from the recent Behind the Scenes event showed one of Chongqing participants (above) seemingly in a moment of domestic bliss – …
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Man Down

26 Feb 2010
In: Hokkaido, Research Methods
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One of the metrics for a successful field study is unsurprisingly, ensuring everyone returns home safely. For our recent Accra field study this was, alas, …
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Observational Transparency

25 Feb 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Washington DC
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A day in DC hosted by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors – surrounded by regulators, a smattering of financial industry folks and consumer advocacy …
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When The Small Print Is Yours

22 Jan 2010
In: Future Perfect, Los Angeles
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Triple A’s decision to monetise/sell/pimp the information provided by customers applying for an insurance quote – creates a short term monetary gain for long term …
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When They Have To Read Your Small Print

22 Jan 2010
In: Future Perfect, Los Angeles
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Triple A’s decision to monetise/sell/pimp the information provided by customers applying for an insurance quote – creates a short term monetary gain for long term …
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History’s New Gatekeepers

14 Dec 2009
In: China, Future Perfect, Lhasa, Locations, Tibet
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Is the current Facebook privacy discussion as some have argued their Microsoft Moment that point where the internal perception of themselves starts to significantly, …
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Practices Around Privacy

25 Jun 2009
In: Design Inspiration, Tehran
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Finding the right balance between working for and being rewarded by a large corporation and respectfully engaging / disengaging with people and communities is a …
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