Paper Records

The Risks of Public Data

A desire for convenience and openness has left local and state public records easily available for mining, combining, and abuse.

By Craig Kelley | March 18, 2020 | Government, Law, Privacy | Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, Convenience, Data, Data Collection, Data-Mining, Databases, Efficiency, Government, Internet, Massachusetts, Paper Records, Privacy, Public Data, Registry of Deeds, Speed, Transparency, Transportation, Voter Registry

Ben Green

Podcast #34: Ben Green on Smart Enough Cities

Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.

By Mo Lotman | August 8, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Community, Culture, Government, Human Rights, Law, Podcasts, Policing, Politics, Prediction, Privacy, Safety, Security, Society, Transportation | Alphabet, Autonomous Vehicles, Bike Share, Boston, Branding, Cameras, Cities, City Services, Civic Engagement, Civic Pride, Complexity, Data Gathering, Data Monetization, Democracy, Dynamic Systems, Efficiency, Engineering, Google, License Plate Readers, Mixed-Use, Optimization, Predictive Policing, Public Policy, Public Space, Racism, Reductionism, Richness, Seattle, Sensors, Sidewalk Labs, Smart Cities, Smart Technology, Social Justice, Street Life, surveillance, Surveillance Oversight Ordinances, Tech Goggles, Traffic, Transportation, Urban Design

Podcast #29: Jim Keenan on Environmentalism, Justice, and Faith

Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.

By Mo Lotman | March 27, 2019 | Community, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Family, Human Rights, Philosophy, Podcasts, Religion, Society | Abuse, Accountability, Amoris Laetitia, Bioethics, Boston College, Canon, Capitalism, Cardinals, Catholicism, Charlie Curran, David Satcher, Disease, Divorce, Ecumenicalism, Education, Environment, Equality, Gender, Genetic Engineering, Greed, Hierarchy, Honesty, Image, Immigration, Interdenominationalism, Jesuits, Justice, Labor, Laudato Si, Malaria, Marriage, Mother Teresa, Ordaining Women, Ordination, Paul Ramsey, Playing God, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Poverty, Power, Privilege, Protestantism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Social Justice, Socialism, St. Ignatius, Stewart Brand, Surgeon General, Sustainability, The Bible, The Jesuit Institute, Theology, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Working Class

Podcast #10: Nicole Freedman on Bike Transit

When Nicole Freedman became Boston’s first “bike czar,” the city had been rated worst in the country in bike friendliness by Bicycling Magazine. A decade later, it’s been in the top ten with a growing network of protected lanes and one of the nation’s first major bike-sharing programs. Freedman describes what it takes to change culture around transit and how everyone can benefit.

By Mo Lotman | March 15, 2017 | Culture, Environment, Health, Podcasts, Politics, Transportation, Well-Being | Bicycles, Bike Lanes, Bike Sharing, Boston, Driverless Cars, Exercise, Local Economies, Mode-Agnostic Transit, New York City, Olympics, Paris, Seattle, Thomas Menino, Transit, Transportation, Vélib

Car Talk: Your Vehicle is About to Get Chatty

When John Adams needed to get from General Washington’s command post at Cambridge, Massachusetts to the seat of our nascent [...]

By Mo Lotman | July 15, 2015 | Automation, Privacy, Security | Driverless Cars, Google, GPS, John Adams, NHTSA, OBD, Safety, Sebastian Thrun, surveillance, Transportation, V2V, VANET, Virgil Gligor

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