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Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

A Texas University's Mind-Boggling Database Of Teens' Daily Text Messages, Emails, and IMs Over Four Years - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/...ens-daily-text-messages-emails-and-ims-over-four-years/

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Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackberry Project.” A title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.” For the past four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental psychology professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens,  capturing every text message, email, photo, and IM sent on Blackberries that she provided to them, creating a rich database that now contains millions of funny, explicit, sexual, and inane messages for academic study. Half a million new messages pour into the database every month. This summer, she’s adding Facebook content to the mix as well. The teens sacrificed their privacy for science… and a free smartphone, data plan and unlimited text messaging.

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Marion Underwood calls her academic study, &#x201c;The Blackberry Project.&#x201d; A title that would work equally well is &#x201c;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon">Panopticon</a>, Jr.&#x201d; For the past four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental psychology professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens,&nbsp; capturing every text message, email, photo, and IM sent on Blackberries that she provided to them, creating a rich database that now contains millions of funny, explicit, sexual, and inane messages for academic study. Half a million new messages pour into the database every month. This summer, she&#x2019;s adding Facebook content to the mix as well. The teens sacrificed their privacy for science&#x2026; and a free smartphone, data plan and unlimited text messaging.