Ubiquitous surveillance
Sites of surveillance
1. Military and intelligence (spy station) 2. State administration and the census (census, regional populations etc) 3. Policing and crime control (CCTV, facial recognition etc) 4. Workplace monitoring and supervision 5. Consumption (target FB marketing) 6. The body (fitbit, finger, voice scanned)
3 analysis strategies
1. predictive analytics 2. Sentiment analysis 3. Controlled experimentation All about monitoring for the purpose of management and control
Data double
Body reduced to data/pure info Databases construct identities for us Transcend representation
Smartphones
Captures images/videos Time/date/location stamped Can be posted to social media e.g. couple having sex in office caught on camera
Examples of care to control continuum
Care: Governing, national security, allocation of resources, disease prevention/intervention Control: Racial profiling, criminalising non criminal behaviour, body policing
Surveillance is rhizomatic
Premised on the idea that no single technology is responsible for "era of surveillance" motivated by the desire to locate new target populations to put technologies to use No major population/group stands outside surveillance
Implications of surveillance
Privacy social control governance fairness and equality knowledge acquisition/differentials
What is dataveillance
The monitoring and storage of digital data relating to personal details or online activities - beyond just watching - store and analysis Automates surveillance Driven by digital technologies
What is ubiquitous surveillance
The prospect of a world in which it becomes increasingly difficult to escape the proliferating technologies for data collection, storage and sorting Boundaries between sites of surveillance are no longer clear cut Encourages mass surveillance, not targeted surveillance Relies on big date (dataveillance) Surveillance is ambiguous - culture and content matter Operates on a continuum (Care - control)
The surveillant assemblage
Theory that describes the function and power of contemporary surveillance Assemblage = convergence of discrete flows/systems of heterogenous objects or datasets functioning together as an entity Transcends institutional boundaries Operates across state and non state institutions Motivated by a range of desires for: Control, governance, security, profit, entertainment The disappearance of disappearance
Examples of 'coordinates' (big data
Time, place, location, demographics, salary, occupation etc
