About me and my interest in zombies

I’m a privacy maven. Always have been, probably always will be. I was one of those seven year old girls who had a diary complete with lock and key – and said diary was always kept locked and hidden, and the key kept in a separate location, and for good measure, also hidden.

I tried to get away from privacy by almost becoming a paleontologist, but dinosaurs and trilobites lost, and privacy won. I’ve worked in the privacy and civil liberties community for almost twenty years, writing and speaking about privacy. Even chaired a conference on the subject, and I’ll be co-chairing that conference again in June, 2017. Privacy and surveillance issues are topics that I’ve thought deeply about. Continue reading “About me and my interest in zombies”

Welcome to DeborahPierce.net

If you just found this blog — welcome!! Pull up a chair, grab your favorite beverage, and read and comment on the topics you find interesting.

This is a place to talk about law, privacy, surveillance, ethics, movies, books – with zombies. The shambling dead are always fun to watch or read about, and I like them even more when I look at them through a privacy and surveillance lens.Ā  And that’s the lens I’ll use here, as I add in my two cents to zombie culture. It’s also the lens that I’m using for my first novel, which is a topic for another post. šŸ™‚

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