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33. For a detailed discussion of captchas, spammers’ workarounds, and human computation,
see von Ahn, supra note 28. For his slides, see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/
cycles.ppt.
34. Id.
35. E-mail from Luis von Ahn to Jonathan Zittrain (May 22, 2007) (on file with author).
36. The use of pornography in motivating individuals to fill in captchas has been suggested
but not proven.
37. See von Ahn, supra note 28.
38. See Brad Stone, Captchas, Online Gatekeepers Against Spam, Need an Overhaul, INT’L
HERALD TRIB., June 11, 2007, available at http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/
business/codes.php.
39. See Posting of Ben Maurer to Exploring, reCAPTCHA: A New Way to Fight Spam, EX-
PLORING (May 23, 2007), http://bmaurer.blogspot.com/2007/05/recaptcha-new-wayto-fight-spam.html
(May 23, 2007, 16:31).
40. JEFFREY ROSEN, THE NAKED CROWD: RECLAIMING SECURITY AND FREEDOM IN AN ANX-
IOUS AGE 23 (2004); Jeffrey Rosen, The Naked Crowd: Balancing Privacy and Security in
an Age of Terror, 46 ARIZ. L. REV. 607, 610 (2004) (“[I]t was proposed after September
11 to engage in ambitious forms of what Roger Clarke has called ‘mass dataveillance’ to
consolidate and analyze public and private data in the hope of unearthing unusual patterns
that might predict suspicious activity.”).
41. See, e.g., FRED H. CATE, PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE 113 (1997) (proposing how
notice could be used to protect privacy).
42. See, e.g., JEFFREY ROSEN, THE UNWANTED GAZE: THE DESTRUCTION OF PRIVACY IN
AMERICA 172–73 (2001) (explaining how, with the help of encryption, “individual Internet
users could come close to realizing Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren’s ideal” of
privacy).
43. ShotSpotter is a company that offers some examples of this technology. See ShotSpotter,
ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System (GLS) Overview, http://www.shotspotter.com/
products/index.html (last visited June 1, 2007) (providing an overview of the company’s
products); Ethan Watters, Shot Spotter, WIRED MAGAZINE, Apr. 2007, at 146–52, available
at http://www.shotspotter.com/news/news.html (discussing the use and effectiveness
of this technology); see also ShotSpotter, ShotSpotter in the News, http://www
.shotspotter.com/news/news.html (last visited June 1, 2007) (providing links to articles
discussing the company and its products).
44. Sig Christenson, Border Webcams Rack Up Millions of Hits in a Month, SAN ANTONIO
EXPRESS-NEWS, Dec. 10, 2006, http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/
MYSA121106.01A.border_webcam.323e8ed.html.
45. Id. (“[S]tate officials Sunday tout[ed] it as a success beyond anyone’s dreams.”).
46. Assoc. Press, Texas Border Cam Test Catches 10 Illegal Immigrants, CHI. SUN-TIMES, Jan.
8, 2007, http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/201613,CST-NWS-bord08.article
(“It seems to me that $20,000 per undocumented worker is a lot of money” (quoting
state Rep. Norma Chavez) [internal quotation marks omitted]); Editorial, Virtual Wall