Tag: Privacy

  • Futurist Friday: Visitor Analytics

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    By Elizabeth Merritt
    Your Futurist Friday assignment is this very brief (1.58 min) video from Cisco about using Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) analytics to locate and track every wireless device in a venue.  While the commentary in this piece is about …

  • The Watchful Museum

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    By Elizabeth Merritt
    I had the pleasure of contributing to a symposium at the National Museum of American History’s Lemelson Center last Friday. Inventing the Surveillance Society looked at the evolving balance between privacy and security in a world …

  • Inventing the Surveillance Society

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    By Elizabeth Merritt
    When Eric Hintz called to ask if I would speak on a symposium about “surveillance,” I thought at first he had my number confused with the NSA. Eric is an historian with the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and …

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