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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/2/22 9:32 AM, glen wrote:<br>
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Teen monitoring Elon Musk’s jet ‘tracking Gates, Bezos and Drake
too’
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/02/teen-tracking-elon-musk-jet-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-drake-jack-sweeney-tesla-flight-tracker-bot">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/02/teen-tracking-elon-musk-jet-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-drake-jack-sweeney-tesla-flight-tracker-bot</a>
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<p>reminds me (vaguely) of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Paglen">Trevor Paglen</a>'s
work: I met him in 2006 at USC while he was working on his "Dark
Projects". As Art Work it felt blatantly political to a fault
but I felt better over time as his arc of work unfolded. At the
time, it was a lot about recruiting lots of people with long
lenses to take pictures at public/private/gov't airports
(especially) of planes with missing/obscured/modified tailnumbers
and building networks of where/when they were seen... they used
yet other identifying characteristics (like wild animal sitings)
to establish identity. Paglen made a visit to Ed Grothus' Black
Hole not too long after that meeting. <br>
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<p>I've a friend who believes strongly that privacy should be
inversely proportional to power... the more of the latter you
have, the less of the former... with folks like Putin and Trump
(and Biden too) having endoscopic monitors on their toilets (for
example) and *no* private conversations allowed (reference to
Trump's recently pieced back together official WH docs that he was
apparently famous for tearing up). The least of us would have
infinite privacy (blanked out on public CCTVs?) I like the
spirit of it, but have no idea of how to begin to implement,
though SteveG's conceptions around Steve Mann's sousveillance do
seem like a good place to start?<br>
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<p>Paparazzi, despite being their own kind of bottom-feeders do seem
to provide a useful function, no?</p>
<p>Possibly neither here nor there, but Paglen and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelinger_Archives">Rick
Prelinger</a> (we were all in a weeklong Annenberg Foundation
workshop together) were exchanging partially analyzed copies of a
database of timestamps and numbers of pagers and cell phone calls
from NYC on 9/11/01 during the runup and aftermath of the twin
towers. They gave me a thumbdrive with the data but I didn't
have my own personal computer at the time and they asked me to
swear to not share/disclose this data to my LANL
handlers/compatriots... I never quite figured out what they were
afraid of, but I was equal parts curious and respectful of their
goings ons... By the time I was in a position (2008) to really
dig into this stuff I had misplaced it. I forget the magnitude
of calls/pages (no data, just metadata) they claimed to have but
it seems like it was at least 10s of thousands... maybe 100s? <br>
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<p>- Steve<br>
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