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The Eroded Self
“Globally Unique Identifiers, or GUID's, are making it possible to link every document you create, message you e-mail and chat you post with your real-world identity. GUID's are kind of serial number that can be linked with your name and e-mail address when you register online for a product or service.”
Tagged: / New York Times By: Jeffrey Rosen
Instructible Agents
Agent software can perform tasks automatically on behalf of a user, but how does the agent come to learn what the user wants? Sometimes the agent can learn just by observing user behavior, but there may also be instances where the user must instruct the agent more explicitly. This "instructibility" aspect is the focus of this project. The user may present examples of behavior that the agent should follow and give advice to the agent as to how the examples should be interpreted.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
Uncloaking Terrorist Networks
This paper looks at mapping covert networks using data available from news sources on the World Wide Web. Through public data we are able to map a portion of the network centered on the 19 dead hijackers. Networks to Map: 1. Trust Prior contacts in family, neighborhood, school, military, club or organization. Public and court records. Data may only be available in suspect's native country. 2. Task Logs and records of phone calls, electronic mail, chat rooms, instant messages, Web site visits. Travel records. Human intelligence: observation of meetings and attendance at common events. 3. Money & Resources Bank account and money transfer records. Pattern and location of credit card use. Prior court records. Human intelligence: observation of visits to alternate banking resources such as Hawala. 4. Strategy & Goals Web sites. Videos and encrypted disks delivered by courier. Travel records. Human intelligence: observation of meetings and attendance at common events.
Tagged: / First Monday By Valdis E. Krebs
ID/entity: Strangers to Ourselves
The makings of identities: personal identity is guided by an invisible apparatus. This apparatus is ever-changing. Surveillance data is continuously being gathered about each of us as we move about in the world. From grocery tabs and credit card transactions to cameras in highway tollbooths and face recognition systems on telephone poles in major cities, we leave ever-more coherent sets of traces. Unknowingly. Perceptions and presentations of selves are assemblages continuously updated as one interacts with people and things. There is not such a thing as a being; there are only projections, interpretations, idealized memories, idolized constructions. A person exists through auto recollections, and knowingly surrounds herself with self-defining tokens. Autotopographies.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
The Surveillance Society
“Tools such as Bluetooth and 802.11 will turn every object and street corner into a node of the wireless Web, aware of and communicating with the Net-connected PDA and cell phone of every passerby. Like transit cards and tollbooth passes, the wireless Web isn't a surveillance technology per se, but it will have that effect.”
Tagged: / Technology Review
SecureId
SecureId is intended to be a simple program that can organize your identity online by giving you control over the types of information you have and who can access them. To do so, it uses a system of facets that can be accessed by individuals who know enough about you to be properly associated with each facet.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
Acting on Advice from Computer Agents
Agents (human or computer) provide their users with recommendations. The current project investigates whether the type of agent making the recommendations (human vs. computer, collaborative vs. individual) influences the decision strategy that people utilize. Specifically, we examine whether the type of agent used influences decision makers' price/quality tradeoffs, risk attitude, willingness to compromise or to follow their gut feeling, or their likelihood of becoming more sensitive to social influences.
Tagged: / MIT Media Laboratory
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