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No privacy, please?Creative Commons Image Reidrac under CC-BY-SA

By Dr Wendy Maples (The Open University)

20 July 2011

While the world worries about phone hacking, have we let privacy slide away by accident?  Read more : No privacy, please?

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The insecurity of security: Perspectives Featuring: audio, By iz4aks via flickr under Creative Commons 2.0

By Dr Jef Huysmans (The Open University), Dr Irus Braverman (Guest), Hanna Barag (Guest)

12 November 2010

The stated purpose of the checkpoints and walls that control movement of Palestinians between Israel and the West Bank is to prevent terrorists from entering...  Read more : The insecurity of security: Perspectives

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The insecurity of security introduction Featuring: video,audio, The Open University

By Sherryl Murphy (Guest), Len Stassi (Guest), David Blunkett MP (Guest), Isabella Sankey (Guest), Peter Williams (Guest)

12 November 2010

Security measures, such as gated communities and CCTV, can remove people's rights and have a long-term physical impact on everyday life. Do these increasing attempts...  Read more : The insecurity of security introduction

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Gait recognitionDreamstime

By Ray Corrigan (The Open University)

28 July 2009

Gait recognition is still a long way off identifying individual criminals, as Ray Corrigan explains  Read more : Gait recognition

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The Growth of Big Brother: The side effect of depersonalisationKatarzyna Zwolska via Dreamstime.com under Limited Royalty Free Licenses (RF-LL)

By Professor Elizabeth Daniel (The Open University)

23 June 2009

Professor Elizabeth Daniel suggests that customers may not be aware of the information about them that is being stored, or how it might one day...  Read more : The Growth of Big Brother: The side effect of depersonalisation

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In search of intelligenceCopyrighted Image Photos.com

By Dr Ivan Horrocks (The Open University)

11 March 2009

Ivan Horrocks takes a look at the data trail we leave behind ourselves  Read more : In search of intelligence

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Technology and trustBBC

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

30 August 2006

What does the increasing surveillance of our personal movement say about trust in our society?  Read more : Technology and trust

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How private is private?photos.com

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

25 May 2006

In modern Western cultures, the notion of privacy is central to our way of thinking. However, the potential that present-day communications and computing systems hold...  Read more : How private is private?

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Who's watching you work? Surveillance in businessBBC

By Dr Kirstie Ball (The Open University)

01 May 2006

Businesses are increasingly using surveillance techniques and technologies to keep an eye on customers and employees.  Read more : Who's watching you work? Surveillance in business

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Where does innovation lead?Derek Matravers

By Dr Derek Matravers (The Open University)

13 April 2005

Derek's response to the second lecture of the 2005 series of Reith lectures  Read more : Where does innovation lead?

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