{"id":590,"date":"2008-02-11T22:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=590"},"modified":"2008-02-11T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:56:49","slug":"noted-deep-within-a-troubling-story-about-surveillance-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/noted-deep-within-a-troubling-story-about-surveillance-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted deep within a troubling story about surveillance in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/05\/AR2008020503144.html\">this Washington Post article<\/a> for several days now. In it, three disturbing things emerge right away. One is that terrorists are using metaverses like Second Life for easy, often untraceable communication and money exchange. A second is that there are predictable and troubling calls for increased surveillance within these metaverses. A third is that Linden Labs, far from protecting users&#8217; privacy, is assuring intelligence officials that adequate surveillance is already built into the system.<\/p>\n<p>Yet only at the end does the truly surprising observation emerge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Jeff Jonas, chief scientist of <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/post200\/2007\/IBM\/\">IBM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www-306.ibm.com\/software\/data\/ips\/products\/masterdata\/eas\/\">Entity Analytic Solutions<\/a>, who has been examining developments in virtual worlds, which have attracted some investment from the company, said there&#8217;s no way to predict how this technology will develop and what kind of capabilities it will provide &#8212; good or bad. But he believes that virtual worlds are about to become far more popular.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the virtual worlds create more and more immersive experiences and as global accessibility to computers increases, I can envision a scenario in which hundreds of millions of people become engaged almost overnight,&#8221; Jonas said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like someone&#8217;s expecting a tipping point sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention this Washington Post article for several days now. In it, three disturbing things emerge right away. One is that terrorists are using metaverses like Second Life for easy, often untraceable communication and money exchange. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/noted-deep-within-a-troubling-story-about-surveillance-in-second-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-9w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}