The UK Labour Party’s Obsession with a (Digital) ID Card: Time to Reconsider When I returned to the UK in the summer of 2002, to take up an academic position, I was on a panel discussing the adoption of ID Cards. I spoke against an ID Card, immediately after the Home Secretary (at that time) … Continue reading A Digital ID Card?
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Orwell’s 1984: Must Reading for the Digital Age
I have not taught an undergraduate course on the Internet and society for quite some time, but when I did, at USC, I had George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on the required reading list. I remember one of the last classes I taught. It was in 1998. It is memorable because my students - after questioning … Continue reading Orwell’s 1984: Must Reading for the Digital Age