The local council covering London’s ever-shrinking red light district (in Soho) is using Bluetooth to warn tourists about so-called ‘clip joints’ that it said “lure people in with false promises of ‘adult entertainment’ but once inside security staff demand hundreds of pounds from visitors.”

I recognise the legal difficulties of prosecuting these people but this seems a bit of a ‘passive aggressive’ way of dealing with the problem. To say nothing of the ethical dubiousness of using ‘bluejacking‘ to send people unsolicited text messages…

David Brake

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Neighbornode is an interesting new project that encourages neighborhood-based virtual communities by providing messageboards that are associated with local wireless networks. Nobody who is not actually connected to that wireless node can read what is on that bulletin board, but ‘nodes’ that are adjacent to each other are linked together.

I often thought that one of the things standing in the way of neighborhood-based virtual communities was simply the problem of 1) getting a "critical mass" of people in a neighborhood online and 2) making a space online where there was a reasonable likelihood that your neighbors would also hang out. This new scheme seems to neatly solve both problems…

Online magazine Salon has a fascinating roundup of recent developments in the burgeoning market for kid tracking. I didn’t realise that intrusive technologies are already on the market - from GPS trackers (obvious) to RFID tags sewn into pyjamas or school ID badges (sneaky). It doesn’t go into surveillance of the online experience itself which is very common - AOL has a "guardian" feature that lists:

• Web sites your child successfully visited.
• Web sites your child attempted to visit but was restricted from.
• The number of e-mails and Instant Messages your child has sent.
• Your child’s Address Book and Buddy List activity.

But at least AOL’s tools notify your kid that you are tracking them - many other addon ‘parental control’ programs do not.
Is anything permissible in surveillance as long as you are monitoring a child? The UN convention on the rights of the child includes a right to privacy. But two countries have yet to ratify it - Somalia and the US.

Update: The department’s own Prof Sonia Livingstone has written a book chapter defending a child’s right to online privacy in “Information Technology at Home” (edited by Kraut, to be published by OUP).

Hi All, I’ve been in ‘writing mode’ (AKA total hibernation) these days, so my apologies for not being around much or if I’ve missed anything. It’s great to come back and see so many of you writing about wild and wonderful things.

Speaking of which, there is a group in South London that is working towards providing community access to the internet via wireless nodes. They call themselves Boundless and although at least one of their founding members, James Stevens, has been doing similar kinds of projects for many years, they decided to become a coop last year. I attended one of their open sessions last night, and in addition to being a friendly bunch, the thing I found most exciting about the whole project is the emphasis on community participation and by extension, community building.

This map shows some of the 45 currently existing nodes. Basically, it works by bringing together people who are willing to host nodes, subsidizing the cost of the technical materials (including a 2 MB cable connection with unlimited download space) by charging those who use it a low monthly access cost. So locals can then connect to the wireless node rather than having their own cable connection. It is in this way that each node constitutes an actual community of people sharing not only a network, but also a neighbourhood. Their aims are to provide internet connections ‘at cost’ and provide an ethical alternative to faceles, corporate and for profit internet services. As I understand it, like the Urban Tapestries public trial, they are using the Locustworld mesh network.

Although I am still uncertain of a lot of the details (e.g. is it legal? how and who would regulate various community connections? what about governance, potential mis-use? etc.) Boundless, like so many locative media projects, has bottum-up, ‘for-the-people’, communty based objectives. One of the things that I think is so innovative about this group is that it has also set out (or is in the process of setting out) an achievable vision of how to realize these aims.

It’s not just a wireless or networking project, but one that is locally rooted, bringing together the social and the technical in a very powerful way - and adds a whole dimension to the terms ‘connectivity’ and ‘locative media’ generally. And it’s happening in my backyard! I’m intensely curious about how it is going to develop.

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