COM 125: Privacy And Surveillance

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COM 125Privacy And Surveillance

• Done By
• Shamala Devi
• Siti Nur Aliah
• Siti Hamimah
• Dalina Daud

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PRIVACY

• Ability of an individual or group to keep their
  livesand personal affairs out of public view,
• Control the flow of information about themselves.
  
• Sometimes related to anonymity
• Can be seen as an aspect of security
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  (Wikipedia Privacy, 2007)

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PRIVACY

• Phishing is an attempt, using fraudulent e- mail
  or web site pop-ups, to get you to divulge
  sensitive financial information such as credit
  card numbers, account numbers, user names,
  passwords, or social security numbers.
• The phisher then uses this information to commit
  identity theft or other fraud.
• Another recent trend is toward pharming, which is
  when Internet users are misdirected to fraudulent
  web sites that appear legitimate in attempt to
  commit identity theft.
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SURVEILLANCE
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SURVEILLANCE

• The monitoring of behavior usually from a
  position of higher authority
• Traditional surveillance close observation by a
  person
• New surveillance scrutiny through the use of
  technical means to extract or create personal or
  group data, whether from individuals or contexts
  (Marx,G., 2004).
• Counter surveillance, Inverse Surveillance

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COUNTER SURVEILLANCE

• Practice of avoiding surveillance
• Making surveillance difficult

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Inverse Surveillance

• Can be referred as sousveillance
• Not from a higher authority but ordinary
  individuals
• E.g. Citizen journalism, Rodney King beating
  (1991)

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IMPACT

• Use of surveillance in organizations
• Personal information is obtained by many small
  groups and individuals.
• Ethical issues in workplace
• Phone tapping, computer surveillance

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IMPACT

• Welcomes ever more powerful surveillance as
  necessary in todays world where efficiency is so
  valued and where there are a multiplicity of
  dangers and risks.
• More pessimistic is the Frankensteinian/ Luddite
  view surveillance technology is inhuman,
  destructive of liberty and untrustworthy.

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PRIVACY VERSUS SURVEILLANCE
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You, Exposed

• Increasing pressure to expose details of our
  personal lives to strangers in order to win their
  trust
• In turn, we demand these strangers to do the same
  for us
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  (The Naked Crowd, Rosen, 2004)

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You, Exposed

• Terms
• Foucaults Panopticon a surveillance house in
  which the few watched the many
• Synopticon the many watch the few
• Omnipticon the many watch the many
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  (The Naked Crowd, Rosen, 2004)

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How?

• Fromms Marketed Self
• The easiest way to attract the attention and
  winning trust of strangers is to establish an
  emotional connection with them by projecting a
  consistent, memorable, and trustworthy image
  
  
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  (The
  Naked Crowd, Rosen, 2004)
• E.g. The use of profiles in online social
  networking sites like Friendster Myspace

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Personal Branding

• The Self is constructed as a form of marketed
  authenticity in which self is turned inside out
  and then sold to the world
• A logical application of marketing technologies
  to the most intimate aspects of The Self
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  (The Naked Crowd, Rosen, 2004)

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Headlines

• Hewlett Packard executives hiring private
  investigators to spy on employees and
  journalists.
• Rep. Mark Foley sending innuendo-laden instant
  messages a reminder that digital communication
  lasts forever and that anonymous sources can be
  unmasked by clever bloggers from just a few
  electronic clues.
• The federal government allegedly compiling a
  database of telephone numbers dialed by
  Americans, and eavesdropping on U.S. callers
  dialing international calls without obtaining
  court orders.
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  (Privacy Lost Does anybody care?, Sullivan,
  2006)

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• The 21st century equivalent of being naked
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  (Privacy Lost Does anybody care?, Sullivan,
  2006)
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You, The Consumers

• Ways you may disclose personal data
• Signing up for a membership discount card
• EZ-Pass system whereby automobile are
  electronically tracked
• Credit bureaus asking for your bill-paying
  histories
• Multiplier effect Data is acquired, analyzed,
  categorized, stored and sold over and over again

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You, The Consumers

• Government agencies buy or demand details about
  our lives in the name of keeping us safe
• Play video Privacy rights on the Internet

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SOUSVEILLANCE
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SOUSVEILLANCE

• The term "sousveillance" stems from the
  contrasting French words sur, meaning "above",
  and sous, meaning "below.
• Surveillance denotes the "eye-in-the-sky"
  watching from above, whereas "sousveillance"
  denotes bringing the camera or other means of
  observation down to human level, either
  physically (mounting cameras on people rather
  than on buildings).
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  (Wikipedia Sousveillance, 2007)

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SOUSVEILLANCE

• The recording of an activity from the perspective
  of a participant in the activity(i.e. personal
  experience capture).
• Refers to the recording or monitoring of real or
  apparent authority figures by others
• Steve Mann, who coined the term, describes it as
  "watchful vigilance from underneath."

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• Emerging discourse on sousveillancewithin
  industry is the "personal sousveillance", namely
  the recordingof an activity by a participant in
  the activity.
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  (Wikipedia Sousveillance, 2007)

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PERSONAL SOUSVEILLANCE

• The art, science, and technology ofpersonal
  experience capture, processing, storage,
  retrieval, and transmission, such as lifelong
  audiovisual recording.
• For example, technologies like cameraphones and
  weblogs (tend to build a sense of community).

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What happened to Rodney King?

• Rodney Glen King is a U.S. citizen and taxi
  driver who became famous after his violent arrest
  by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department
  (LAPD) wasvideotaped by a bystander, George
  Holliday.
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  King, 2007)

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The Aftermath

• The incident raised a public outcry among people
  who believed it was racially motivated.
• Growing tension between the black community and
  the LAPD.
• Increasing anger over police brutality and more
  general issues of unemployment, racial tension,
  and poverty facing the black community in South
  Central Los Angeles.
• The acquittal in a state court of the four
  officers charged with usingexcessive force in
  subduing King provided the spark that led to
  the1992 Los Angeles riots.
  (Wikipedia Rodney King,
  2007)

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HIERARCHIAL SOUSVEILLANCE

• Refers to citizensphotographing police, shoppers
  photographing shopkeepers, or taxicabpassengers
  photographing cab drivers.
  (Wikipedia Sousveillance, 2007)

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