Works at: California-based media correspondent and trained private investigator
Blog/website: emmanuelle.net
Track: Internet
Why do we invite Emmanuelle?
Because it has been a long, long time since we virtually met Emmanuelle and we needed an occasion to see her real self. LIFT is the occasion, and we are sure that beyond these shameful personal considerations people will be interested by her view on blogs, technology, and people. Being a French in Los Angeles and a woman, Emmanuelle has a unique perspective that she shares (way too occasionaly these days) on her blog, one of the most famous webpages of the French speaking web.
Tags: privacy, internet
Speaker zone
ANONYMITY, INC: Is anonymity the new bottled water?
Blogspotting’s Stephen Baker and Buzzmachine’s Jeff Jarvis started interesting threads on their blogs about the towering market of anonymity: as companies such as Google ( all over the news on this topic) are offering more free services and making money through their knowledge of us, is it possible to remain anonymous?
Are we going to have a choice to remain anonymous or, as privacy expert Michael Zimmer wrote, would “pseudonymity” be a more attainable goal?
Will we have to pay a premium for the privilege and consider anonymity as a luxury good such as bottled water or can we turn the tables and sell our information ourselves or exploit our personomies?
I’ll be interviewing experts, researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals in the media, database and private investigation industries, and using audio excerpts from them during the presentation. Including:
* Roger Dingledine, project leader for Tor, a free anonymous Internet system.
* Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski of Personomies
* Prof. Stephen Hsu, encryption and Internet security expert who co-founded SafeWeb (blog Information Processing)
* Brad Adgate, corporate research director of Horizon Media.
Feel write to drop me a line: emmarichard – at – gmail.com
Many thanks to Jeff Jarvis who let me use his brilliant title: Anonymity, Inc
Check out this Wired article: Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet
Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski’s take on the issue
The New York Times: Privacy for People Who Don't Show Their Navels
audio: Roger Dingledine talks about Tor on the Chris Pirillo Show
“Nameless in Cyberspace“, a paper by Jonathan Wallace published by the Cato Institute in 1999 (PDF file)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Anonymity page
The upside of zero privacy, by Declan McCullagh, Reason Magazine.