Archive for February, 2012

How the Government is Both Helping and abusing your Digital Privacy

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

With the advent of contextual advertising, pioneered by Google, demand for your information has grown exponentially. As the old saying goes, “Theres no such thing as a free lunch.” Google and many other online service providers provide an array of services from the indexing of billions of web pages for ...

A History of our Information Society

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

Since ancient civilization, man has had an innate desire to know. He learned about the stars, God, farming, making tools, hunting, cooking, medicating, sanitation and more. In the past this knowledge was passed down orally then when he developed written language, it was written down. Over the years it has ...

The GPS and Our Privacy

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

This week's topic in info3pt0 is the challenge we face as a society in retaining privacy while adopting useful new technologies, specifically the GPS in this case. The class brings up two articles and asks the question if we as a society ought to increase or decease our usage of ...