Saturday, February 1, 2003

Living under the Patriot Act, like cowering under a dark shadow U-WIRE.com - FBI task force tracks student activity, privacy concerns raised. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Some students are wondering how much privacy they still have now that Joint Terrorism Task Forces overseeing counterterrorism include collegiate police officers on a dozen campuses. Paying attention to college campuses and working with campus police to check any tips or leads is one way federal agencies have been monitoring potential terrorist threats. The Department of Public Safety regularly works and exchanges information with the FBI on different security issues like the ban on flyovers over the University of Michigan Stadium, said DPS spokeswoman Diane Brown. "Only if any of the law-enforcing agencies, like the FBI, received a credible tip about an issue on campus, that would be investigated," Brown said. "However the FBI could find out public information like details on the [University] directory." However, students and faculty are weary of zealous federal agencies after the USA Patriot Act was passed in October 2001, which took away significant privacy protections from students, said Noel Saleh, staff attorney of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. "The FBI could really find out anything they wanted," Saleh said. "They are interested in student activists or organizers. Like the divestment conference that happened late last year was an interest to the FBI." Prior to the USA PATRIOT Act, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 stated that, unless the school had been mandated by court order or subpoena, an academic institution was generally barred from releasing a student's education records without a student's consent. [Privacy Digest] 12:31:59 AM    Comment [] a klog apart sees a future for moblogging Where klogging meets moblogging.. How can I apply the work context to moblogging? I'm using the term as taking pictures using your mobile phone or mobile camera and posting them to a weblog with a time/date/location/permalink stamp. I guess I'm also making the 3-year leap of assuming video capture where we get snapshots today. Marc Canter comments on responding to Russell's thoughts on moblogging. I agree with everything said so far. What makes moblogging novel? More opportunistic. Like your mobile phone, you'll have image capture with you 24/7. Snap as opportunity strikes. More ubiquitous. Low cost means everyone will have moblogging devices. Your workforce. Your customers. Your consultants and advisors. Your investors. More real-time. Digital flow-through means that events are captured and published in near-realtime. More collaborative. The ability to swarm on an important or interesting event lets you form a rashomon and blind men with elephant composite view. More organized. The 2004 generation of moblogging gadgets will have the royal trio of ID, date/time, and location. Thumbing a few keywords for topical context feeds search engines. Enjoy a psychotic split with me. Imagine that you work in ... MarCom. With mobile cams and vids you can roll your own ethnographic studies. Watch buyer behavior in real time. Correllate with sales statistics by location. Help sales teams. Enhance your CRM profiles with photos of major account contacts, meetings, facilities. Moblog sales and promotional events. Create immediacy, share results, and broaden event reach. Accounting and Logistics. Nothing compares to eyeballing where the rubber meets the road. Moblog inventory. Moblog your customer, supplier, and partner operations. When combined with RFID tags, this may be the first time you visualize your supply chain. Due dilligence? Get more done, faster, when you assess personnel, plant, products, and other assets.   Operations Analysis and Industrial Engineering. Document processes, the better to understand them. Photograph bottlenecks and other contraints, the better to fix them. Record how people really work, the better to help them understand their own processes. Competitive Analysis. Shop the competition and share the results before you get back to the office. You're WalMart investor relations: marshall 10,000 small investors to show the competition all across the country.   Field Operations. A field view. Add moblogging to everyone who drives a company van to install, measure, or repair things. Let them document their routes, their visits, the problems they encounter. Makes for better watercooler conversation. Helps the next gal to visit that customer. Education and Knowledge Sharing. Informal moblogging can ease personnel transitions. With experience, they can enhance the role of blogs as knowledge repositories. Project Management. A picture is worth a thousand GANTT charts. When your projects aren't virtual, moblog your status reports.  Real world experimentation will prove or disprove these applications. I can't wait to start.   [a klog apart community] [a klog apart] 12:03:01 AM    Comment []

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