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Greasing palms
Coincidence?
A couple of stories from the Consumerist
BBC report on Gowers Report reads like a press release
BBC: Surveillance drones in Merseyside
Review: Made to Break by Giles Slade
Review: We Know What You Want by Martin Howard
Shaping behaviour at the Design Council
Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control
Some interesting aspects of built-in obsolescence
Planned addiction as a method of control: a parasitic lock-in business model
Spiked: When did ‘hanging around’ become a social problem?
Freedom to Tinker – The Freedom to Tinker with Freedom?
Spiked: ‘Enlightening the future’
DRM now the ‘biggest issue’ in preserving information for the future
Oh yeah, that Windows Kill Switch
Embedding control in society: the end of freedom
ABC wants to disable fast-forwarding on digital video recorders
Neuros: ‘Freedom by Design’
EFF: Another Endangered Gizmo – the Neuros MPEG4 Recorder 2
Policing Crowds: Privatizing Security
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