Surveillance Flashcards
(20 cards)
What is the definition of surveillance?
Systematic observation of people with the aim of influencing or managing their behaviour
What are the different types of surveillance?
-State surveillance
- Corporate surveillance
- Personal surveillance; family, personal belongings
- Self-surveillance; health, personal insight
What are potential issues with state surveillance?
- Data collected without consent
- Citizens have little oversight on the data collected on them
- Very large amounts of data
What are the potential issues with corporate surveillance?
- Lack of consent or transparency
- Personal data sold to 3rd parties
- manipulative recommendation system
What are potential issues with personal surveillance?
- Monitoring someone else without consent can erode trust
- Can be misused; stalking or controlling behaviour
- Personal devices susceptible to hacking or data leaks
What are potential issues with self surveillance?
- Data collected can be resold or used for advertising
- Personal health metrics will be stored on central corporate server
What is big data surveillance?
Systemic collection, analysis and use of massive datasets for monitoring and control
What technologies use big data?
- Social media platforms
- GPS data
- credit card transations
What is predictive intelligence?
Big data is used to anticipate events such as crimes or terrorist attacks
What is sousveillance?
individuals monitor those in power, such as governments and corporations
What are the types of censorship?
- Network-level censorship
- Platform-level censorship
- Self-censorship
- Algorithmic censorship
What is network-level censorship?
censoring websites or services
What is platform-level censorship?
content moderation on platforms like Twitter, YouTube etc
What is self-censorship?
individuals modify behaviour, knowing they are being monitored
What is algorithmic-censorship?
AI filters unintentionally remove content due to lack of understanding or training bias
what are some methods used for network-level censorship?
- IP blocking
- Deep packet inspection
- Firewalls
What mechanism is used for automated content moderation?
Natural language models that detect inappropriate behaviour
How can privacy and surveillance be balanced?
- Embed privacy features into technology
- Transparent data usage policies
- Data collected is anonymised
What is ignorance of privacy from users caused by?
Lack of transparency: Users can’t understand policies and become ignorant of them for convenience
What can a lack of a robust legal framework lead to?
big-tech manipulating privacy and user data however they want
