Panappticon

February 20th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron ]

It’s riveting to follow the tweets on protests in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya or Iran on Mibazaar in real-time to be sure — but mash that capability up with the one Shloky found and Zen just mentioned with video…

quopanappticon.jpg

As Zen says, I mean, “automatic face-recognition and social media aggregation raises serious concerns about the potential dangers of living under a panopticon state”.

Two dots, two data-points, two apps connected.

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  1. zen:

    February 20th, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    Excellent!

  2. Charles Cameron:

    February 20th, 2011 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks, Zen. 
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    It’s actually scary to see how closely individual tweets can be tracked on Mibazaar — I didn’t zoom in as far as I could for the image above.