Privacy is not the Antidote to Surveillance.

Privacy is Not an Option: Attacking the IPv6 Privacy Extension

The IPv6 privacy extension introduces temporary addresses to protect against address-based correlation, i. e., the attribution of different transactions to the same origin using addresses, and is considered as state-of-the-art mechanism for privacy protection in IPv6. In this paper, we scrutinize the extension’s capability for protection by analyzing its algorithm for temporary address generati...

Antidote to Poverty: Economic Freedom, Not Government Dependency

Margaret McCartney: Privacy is not secrecy.

Celebrities die, just like the rest of us. And—shock!—sometimes they do it without first making a public pronouncement. But, when a celebrity dies without an announcement of illness or a disclosure of the type of cancer, grieving family and friends are often accused of keeping the illness “secret.” This, in the froth of social media and newspaper commentary, is seen as a “very bad thing.” Rathe...

Surveillance and Privacy

Recent social and technical developments are expanding surveillance by the government and private sector and intensifying privacy concerns, resulting in a surveillance-privacy dilemma. Governments establish surveillance schemes to fight terrorism and crime. Private organizations use profiling and data mining techniques to target marketing endeavors, to analyze customer behavior and monitor the ...

Is mixed‐income development an antidote to urban poverty?

I critically assess the potential for mixed-income development as a means of helping lift families in U.S. inner cities out of poverty. I identify four main propositions for the promise of mixed-income development, provide a conceptual framework that delineates the pathways through which mixed-income development can be hypothesized to improve the quality of life for the urban poor, and review t...