Citizenship

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Citizenship Technology are you happy that Big
Brother is watching you?You decide..Kevin
Doyle Chris Wallace Praminda Caleb-SollyDelia
Fairburn
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Definitions of Citizenship

• A person is normally a citizen of the country in
  which they are born (and have not renounced or
  lost citizenship of) or naturalized and to which
  that person owes allegiance and by which he or
  she is entitled to be protected.www.immigrationon
  line.com/glossary/glossary.asp
• Citizenship is membership in a political
  community (originally a city but now usually a
  state), and carries with it rights to political
  participation a person having such membership is
  a citizen. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship

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Some IS related Citizen Concerns

• Healthcare EPR, Medical Informatics- Choose and
  Book
• Education Digital Literacy, CAL, Web based IS
• Social Welfare CSA, Tax Credits
• Law and Order PITO, NAFIS, Electronic
  Surveillance
• Employment Globalization, New Working
  Practices, Outsourcing,
• Foreign Policy 'War Against Terror' Propaganda,
  Software, Electronic Warfare

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Question

• Where do you get information from in order to
  have an informed opinion about these
  topics/issues/dilemmas?

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Where do we get our information from?

• Don't bother
• First Hand Experience
• Newspapers Magazines
• Radio Television News/Current Affairs/Special
  Features/Satirical Reviews
• Academic Professional Journals
• The Web Websites, eJournals, electronic
  databases
• Each other Conversations, Chatrooms, Blogs,
  Wikis
• There are issues of truthfulness, bias,
  completeness and responsibility for getting it
  right e.g. dontdatehimgirl.com

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Electronic Surveillance
Big Brother is watching Not in 1984 but in
2002 Source http//www.samizdata.net/blog/archi
ves/002285.html
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Entitlement to ProtectionBig Brother will look
after us

• Police and security and intelligence services are
  increasingly turning toward video surveillance
  technology as the answer to terrorist threats and
  the public's demand for security.
• There has been a surge in the number of
  surveillance cameras in Britain in the last
  couple of years (now one camera for every twelve
  people).
• In most cases, cameras are hidden from view or
  disguised so as to be undetected by those being
  filmed. Many are privately operated
• Some cameras can swivel to locate you and zoom in
  for a closer view.

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You are watched at work
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You are watched in public places

• This image is a still taken from a shopping
  centre CCTV camera in 1993. It was released by
  the shopping centre to the police and the public
  in the hunt for Jamie Bulger's killers. It is
  contended to be in the public domain.
• Source http//www.answers.com/topic/bulger-cctv-
  jpg

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Sometimes you set out to be watched
Picture Jess Hurd/ reportdigital.co.uk
Source http//www.israelnewsagency.com/
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You are watched in your car

• Britain is about to enhance its reputation as the
  surveillance capital of the West with a global
  first recording as many as 50 million car
  movements a day and storing details in a vast
  databank with date, time, and location stamps.
• A network of thousands of cameras harnessed to
  software will read car license plates, check them
  against a central database, and alert police to
  suspected criminals or terrorists. The system
  will also check that the vehicle is properly
  taxed, insured and MOTd as well as helping to
  catch drivers using mobile phones or failing to
  wear a seat belt.
• In regional trial runs, the number of arrests per
  officer increased by a factor of ten.
• Source CSMgtWorldgtEurope January 2006
  http//www.csmonitor.com/2006/0111/p01s01-woeu.htm
  l

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Its not just number plates that can be
recognized.

• The Police Information Technology Organisation
  aims to create a national database of still and
  video facial images, tattoos, and other imagery
  linked to criminal biographical information. They
  are also looking into how they can incorporate
  facial recognition software into the mugshot
  database for the police forces of England,
  Scotland, and Wales. Source (Jan. 16, 2006)
  Source http//www.epic.org/privacy/facerecognitio
  n/
• The British national identity card is to be
  introduced in 2008, under the provisions of the
  Identity Cards Act 2006 Source
  http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_national_iden
  tity_card

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Do you want to be labelled, tagged and recorded?

• The organizations and individuals cited by
  Privacy International as doing the most to erode
  personal privacy in 2004 included MP Margaret
  Hodge, the NHS and the Office of National
  Statistics .

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Surveillance at School

• In Santee, California, college officials have
  instituted an extensive system of camera monitors
  that can track over 2000 students as they move
  around the college.
• They have recently added face recognition
  capabilities to the system so that their computer
  systems can automatically detect when people are
  in places they are not authorized to be by
  reference to the student database.

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Have Your Say

• Imagine that your school/college is considering
  the adoption of a similar system, in order to
  improve the safety and security of students,
  staff and university property.
• What do you think about the idea?
• If you support the use of surveillance systems in
  schools and colleges raise your hand.

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How to text your views to the SMS Whiteboard

• Text
• SAY followed by a space and your view
• 0762 480 3759
• The Whiteboard
• The Poll

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Some Food for Thought

• As citizens of a modern, democratic first world
  information economy our movements and activities
  are watched, recorded and catalogued more closely
  than in most totalitarian states.
• We also have the potential, through the tools and
  technologies of electronic democracy to
  participate in politics and to influence the
  decisions that affect us in any and every aspect
  of our everyday lives.
• Technology is useful, but we must not lose sight
  of the ethical issues in the context of its use.

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Further Information

• If you are interested in studying Information
  Systems visit CEMS StudentsOnline