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Privacy in the age of surveillance
Cristina Costa
Discuss the readings
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“the network society (…) is made up of networks of production, power and experience, which construct a culture of virtuality in the global flows that transcend time and space” (Castells, 1998, p.370)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91351004@N00/449052129
Surveillance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8185633@N07/5328104477
Surveillance as “any collection and processing of personal data, whether identifiable or not, for the purposes of influencing or managing those whose data have been garnered” (Lyon, 2001, p.2)
“Surveillance society” is a term coined by Gary Marx to mean “all-encompassing use of computer surveillance technology in modern society for total social control”. (1985)
The Internet is a surveillance statehttp://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html
Discusshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/4020408210
Got any examples of surveillance?
Old or new
CCTVclosed-circuit television
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55279617@N00/124659356
Web tracking
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/6912948733
Biometrics
Identification of physical or behavioural traits:Fingerprints
face recognition
iris recognition
DNA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25187937@N05/6601830241
Utah Data Center
Utah Data Center
Mission: to intercept, decipher, analyse and store vast amounts of the world's communications from satellites and underground and undersea cables of international, foreign and domestic networks.
https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
Utah Data Center
Safety or surveillance?
Is surveillance a good or bad thing?
Discuss
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34325628@N05/6833164041
The two faces of surveillance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/8194471928
Tool for detection or preventing crime
Tool for law-breaking activities
For both
UK Riots
Privacy
Has the online world changed the notion of privacy? How so?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07/4638981545
Privacy personal information
Revealed through
• Social Network sites
• Browser searchers
• Cookies
• Emails
• Geolocation
• Tagging
• Etc.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12734746@N00/368912557
Surveillance or privacy, or both?
Google Glass
A teaching tool?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66887865@N00/11495315594
It’s all in the way we interpret the purpose of such tools
Connected to our values
Its connection to safety- raising children’s awareness
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
Orwellian society
Big brother
https://www.flickr.com/photos/80031239@N00/2433102820