Databases can correlate location data from smartphones, the growing number of private cameras, license plate readers on police cruisers and toll roads, and facial recognition technology. Officials need a warrant, but private data brokers don’t and can have access to everything from your social media photos to your personal health trackers.
Author Archives: Peter Krapp/University of California, Irvine
Peter Krapp is professor of Film & Media Studies, Informatics, English and Music at the University of California, Irvine.
Research Interests:
Secret communications and cybernetics (information theory, cryptologic history); cultural memory and media history (games and simulations, history of computing); aesthetic communication (title design, film music)