images Thesis 78

Measures aimed at securing our prerogatives via technical means will also appear.

It's not as if the people now developing ubiquitous systems are blind to the more problematic implications of their work—not all of them, anyway, and not by a long stretch. But perhaps unsurprisingly, when they think of means to address these implications, they tend to consider technical solutions first.

Consider the ethic that your image belongs to you—that in private space, anyway, you have the right to determine who is allowed to record that image and what is done with it. At the seventh annual Ubicomp conference, held in Tokyo in September 2005, a ...

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