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)

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Surveillance

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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

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Got any examples of surveillance?

Old or new

CCTVclosed-circuit television

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Web tracking

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Biometrics

Identification of physical or behavioural traits:Fingerprints

face recognition

iris recognition

DNA

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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

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The two faces of surveillance

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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?

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Privacy personal information

Revealed through

• Social Network sites

• Browser searchers

• Cookies

• Emails

• Geolocation

• Tagging

• Etc.

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Surveillance or privacy, or both?

Google Glass

A teaching tool?

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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

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