Privacy in the age of surveillance

1. Privacy in the age of
surveillance
Cristina Costa

2. Discuss the readings
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tearsandrain/

3. “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

4. Surveillance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8185633@N07/5328104477

5. 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)

6. “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)

7. The Internet is a surveillance state
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html
Discuss
https://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/4020408210

8. Got any examples of surveillance?
Old or new

10. CCTV
closed-circuit television
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55279617@N00/124659356

11. Web tracking
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/6912948733

12. Biometrics
Identification of physical
or behavioural traits:
Fingerprints
face recognition
iris recognition
DNA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25187937@N05/6601830241

14. Utah Data Center

15. 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.

16. https://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/

17. Utah Data Center
Safety or surveillance?

18. Is surveillance a good or bad thing?
Discuss
https://www.flickr.com/photos/34325628@N05/6833164041

19. The two faces
of surveillance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/8194471928

20.  Tool for detection or preventing crime

21.  Tool for law-breaking activities

23. For both
UK Riots

24. Privacy
Has the online world changed the notion
of privacy? How so?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07/4638981545

25. Privacy  personal information

26. Revealed through
• Social Network sites
• Browser searchers
• Cookies
• Emails
• Geolocation
• Tagging
• Etc.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12734746@N00/368912557

27. Surveillance or privacy, or both?

28. Google Glass
A teaching tool?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66887865@N00/11495315594

30. It’s all in the way we interpret the
purpose of such tools
 Connected to our values

31. Its connection to safety
- raising children’s awareness
http://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

32. Orwellian society
Big brother
https://www.flickr.com/photos/80031239@N00/2433102820