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I edited and wrote part of a short book published by New America in July 2015 and freely available online, about how drones are being used in new ways around the world. It's meant to be useful to people who want to fly drones.The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
I wrote a chapter on the long history of drone technology going back to the early 20th century in this edited Cambridge University Press volume.
privacy
Zuckerberg’s new privacy essay shows why Facebook needs to be broken up
7 March 2019
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand what privacy means—and he can’t be trusted to define it for the rest of us.
Why his claims to be re-orienting Facebook towards the protection of privacy don’t add up.
[MIT Technology Review]
In order to better serve you
24 May 2018
Updates to My Privacy Policy
In advance of the new General Data Protection Regulation.
[Slate]
Regulating Persistence
19 March 2015
Why persistent surveillance must be regulated
A brief response to Obama’s call for comment on drones and privacy.
[The Economist]
clips, Drones
tags: drones, FAA, NTIA, persistence, privacy, small drones, The Economist