TILT has launched ‘Clique‘, a privacy-enhanced social networking site. It was developed as part of the EU FP7 PrimeLife project in which TILT participates. Clique enables users to create different faces, thereby keeping contexts (work, friends, family) separated, all under one account. Besides, all content posted can be moderated regarding accessibility for other users. Differentiate between connections and what the ycan see about you. Everyone is welcome to open an account, and all comments and suggestions are welcome via the wire.
Clique is launched: a privacy-enhanced social networking site
February 4th, 2010Cognitive enhancement in the public interest
January 18th, 2010By Anton Vedder (Associate professor) and Laura Klaming (Researcher), both affiliated at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT)
Eyewitness testimony plays an important role in the apprehension, prosecution and adjudication of criminals. In their decision-making processes, law enforcement officials rely heavily on eyewitness reports. Unfortunately, the actual accuracy of eyewitness memory is often far from ideal. Wrongful eyewitness testimony is a serious problem accounting for more erroneous convictions than all other factors combined.
Given the consequences of vague and incomplete eyewitness testimony and the importance of this type of evidence in criminal justice, there is a need for methods to improve the memory of eyewitnesses in order to eventually obtain reliable evidence. Despite the fact that psychological research has improved the collection of eyewitness evidence over the past years, the majority of methods aiming at an enhancement of eyewitness memory, such as hypnosis and the cognitive interview, was found to have no or limited potential in leading to more reliable evidence. Fortunately, neurotechnologies that are currently applied to treat a range of neurological and psychiatric diseases were found to have a number of positive side effects on cognitive functioning in healthy individuals. These technologies might be effective in improving eyewitness memory. Read the rest of this entry »
What Eric doesn’t get
December 19th, 2009By Ronald Leenes (Professor Regulation by Technology at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society)
Google and privacy are two words that hardly are mentioned in the same sentence without some sort of negation in between these days. And indeed Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, has recently contributed significantly to the general opinion that Google does not care about privacy. In an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, he remarked “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”. This remark did not go by unnoticed. At the time of writing this blog, it generated 33900 hits on his own search engine. This does not surprise me.
Whether the remark shows Schmidt’s ignorance regarding the need for and nature of privacy, or whether it shows sheer malice, I don’t know, but what I do know is that I’m not sure which is worse. Read the rest of this entry »