Too Close For Comfort: Free Speech, Privacy, and the Demonstrate Project
Ken Goldberg and Deirdre Mulligan

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Ken Goldberg and Deirdre Mulligan. "Too Close For Comfort: Free Speech, Privacy, and the Demonstrate Project". Talk or presentation, 15, September, 2005.

Abstract
Like oxygen, privacy is an odorless, colorless substance usually taken for granted. It is deeply rooted in both the personal and the social, evoking a range of human responses. Political and technical developments have have altered privacy's ecosystem of expectations, laws and behaviors. To expand the dialogue on visual privacy, we set out to demonstrate -- to make visible -- concrete examples of privacy in practice:

We installed a state-of-the-art robotic webcamera over UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement. For six weeks, the camera was made accessible to anyone on the Internet. Online participants shared remote control of the robot camera, allowing them to zoom in to frame and photograph activity on the Plaza at any time of day or night. During the six-week course of the installation, over 1100 images were taken, putting public activity in Sproul Plaza under scrutiny and placing online participants in the position of hidden observers. The installation provoked a range of reactions. I'll describe what was observed, the controversies, and illustrate with images taken by users.

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  Comfort: Free Speech, Privacy, and the Demonstrate
  Project". Talk or presentation,  15, September, 2005.

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  @presentation{GoldbergMulligan05_TooCloseForComfortFreeSpeechPrivacyDemonstrateProject,
      author = { Ken Goldberg and Deirdre Mulligan},
      title = {Too Close For Comfort: Free Speech, Privacy, and
                the Demonstrate Project},
      day = {15},
      month = {September},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = { Like oxygen, privacy is an odorless, colorless
                substance usually taken for granted. It is deeply
                rooted in both the personal and the social,
                evoking a range of human responses. Political and
                technical developments have have altered privacy's
                ecosystem of expectations, laws and behaviors. To
                expand the dialogue on visual privacy, we set out
                to demonstrate -- to make visible -- concrete
                examples of privacy in practice: <p>We installed a
                state-of-the-art robotic webcamera over UC
                Berkeley's Sproul Plaza, birthplace of the Free
                Speech Movement. For six weeks, the camera was
                made accessible to anyone on the Internet. Online
                participants shared remote control of the robot
                camera, allowing them to zoom in to frame and
                photograph activity on the Plaza at any time of
                day or night. During the six-week course of the
                installation, over 1100 images were taken, putting
                public activity in Sproul Plaza under scrutiny and
                placing online participants in the position of
                hidden observers. The installation provoked a
                range of reactions. I'll describe what was
                observed, the controversies, and illustrate with
                images taken by users. },
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/6.html}
  }
  

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