Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Combatting The Surveillance Industrial Complex

This is an ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union - report on
The Privatization of Surveillance

"The U.S. security establishment is rapidly increasing its ability to monitor average Americans by hiring or compelling private-sector corporations to provide billions of customer records. The explosive growth in surveillance by government and business is creating a "Surveillance Industrial Complex" that threatens all of our privacy"

Monday, August 09, 2004

CRIC Papers
The Tether et al analysis of CIS data is online – I should have known!
Go to: B Tether, I Miles; K Blind. C Hipp; N de Liso and G Cainelli 2002 on Innovation in the Service Sector: Analysis of Data collected under the CIS2
University of Manchester, CRIC Working paper no 11 ISBN 1 8402 006X –
available as http://les1.man.ac.uk/usercgi/cric/cricpaperdl.asp?paper=wp11

Friday, August 06, 2004

PREST - Science and Technology Policy and Innovation Studies at Manchester
This website now carries the report, never before available electronically:
I Miles, N Kastrinos (with K Flanagan) & R Bilderbeek, P den Hertog (with W Huitink & M Bouman) 1995 Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Users, Carriers and Sources of Innovation
Luxembourg, European Innovation Monitoring Service, Publication no. 15 (ed/d-00801 mas)