New Media Surveillance Paper

This article argues that surveillance is becoming increasingly normal across the USA and the world and that this is changing our freedom and security. It mentioned that globalization and migration of people from different countries some who threaten our country has made this surveillance more necessary to protect our citizens from theorists acts. The article uses examples of video-surveillance to make this case and to argue for both stronger resistances to calls to make our human rights more flexible in a risky time.

Surveillance is not a new thing. In fact, espionage, tracking, and sleuthing were part of society ever since 5000 B.C. But in the rise of the modern era, the idea of surveillance in the public eye serves as a controversial topic of discussion. People everywhere complain about the existence of security cameras, government tracking, and the right to privacy. Such problems, however, are not due to the sudden discovery of surveillance, but the modern abuse of it. Seeing the disastrous effects of over surveillance from George Orwell’s 1984, the public rightfully fears societal deterioration through modern surveillance abuse portrayed in Matthew Hutson’s “Even Bugs Will Be Bugged” and the effects of such in Jennifer Golbeck’s “All Eyes On You”. The abuse of surveillance induces the fear of discovery through the invasion of privacy, and ensures the omnipresence of one’s past that haunt future endeavors, to ultimately obstruct human development and the progress of society overall.

In Brian Trent’s article, Technology and Tomorrow: A Challenge to Liberty, Trent describes how electronic surveillance has increased and how it will continue to spread amongst people. In Craig Silverman’s article, Smile, Big Brother’s watching, Silverman explains that the amount of time and surveillance that corporations conduct over employees is increasing, but having some negative effects. Both of these articles explain how electronic surveillance will increase so much, that almost everyone will be able to be seen when not in the open [monitored]. In this essay I’ll be going more in depth to describe both articles and I’ll explain whether I agree with their arguments and why.

Government surveillance in the past was not a big threat due to the limitations on technology; however, in the current day, it has become an immense power for the government. Taylor, author of a book on Electronic Surveillance supports, "A generation ago, when records were tucked away on paper in manila folders, there was some assurance that such information wouldn 't be spread everywhere. Now, however, our life stories are available at the push of a button" (Taylor 111). With more and more Americans logging into social media cites and using text-messaging devices, the more providers of metadata the government has. In her journal “The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit”, Anita L. Allen, an expert on privacy law, writes, “Contemporary technologies of data collection make secret, privacy invading surveillance easy and nearly irresistible. For every technology of confidential personal communication…there are one or more counter-technologies of eavesdropping” (Allen 1). Being in the middle of the Digital Age, we have to be much more careful of the kinds of information we put in our digital devices.

“We blog, tweet, and post what we are doing, thinking, feeling” (462). What we choose to let out gets taken without our consent. Society is under surveillance at any given time or

In this paper I will be talking about government surveillance. The government pries through social media sites to gain information about United States citizens. I have become reliant and careless on social media. My birthdays is posted on social media, location, and school. Cell phones calls have been invaded by NASA as well. Internet searches are one of the governments way of tracking habits and patterns of potential suspects. I use technology for almost every school assignment, so avoiding technology in this generation is practically inevitable. Since the release of the government being guilty of surveilling its citizens, many citizens vocalized their stance or opinion. While some citizens claim they cannot function with knowing that they

A Surveillance Society by William Thompson and Joseph Hickey is the critique of the increased surveillance in nations across the world but more specifically the United States. This article describes what new surveillance equipment is out there and how people use it. What is interesting about this article is that it is important to everyone because the topic touches everyone's lives. It tells how governments, and criminals can use surveillance equipment to affect your life, such as taking personal info such as email and banking statements without the you ever knowing. This is do to the patriot act which was created after the events of 9/11 which gives the government a right to “search suspected terrorists”

Society is a living breathing organism, one that constantly pushes for constant advancements in everything. This could be through medicine, social skills, physical ability, and even technological advances. Specifically for the application of law and a person’s right to privacy technological advances in surveillance will be analyzed. Whitebread, and Slobogin (2014) give a good working definition of what technological surveillance is and what is covers. “Technological surveillance,… is meant to encompass a wide variety of techniques that enhance the ability to ease drop or spy on the activities of others” (Whitebread and Slobogin, 2004, p. 134,)There are many forms of technological surveillance, example will be show through case law. As new

In her article, “The Public Domain: Social Surveillance in Everyday Life”, Marwick discusses the phenomenon of social surveillance that has emerged alongside the increased use of social networking sites. Marwick uses ethnographic studies as evidence to support her theories about social surveillance, which build upon Foucault’s model of “capillaries of power” to distinguish her conception of social surveillance from traditional surveillance in terms of power, hierarchy, and reciprocity. She argues that unlike traditional surveillance, the surveillance that takes place on social networking sites provides its users with a more fluid sense of power pertaining to gathering information on others. This flow of power creates an imbalance between the participating individuals, transforming what is traditionally a structurally hierarchical act into one that is socially hierarchical. Participating individuals both

Discussions were formed about how much personal privacy people were willing to give for the promise of safety from terrorists. However, surveillance devices such as high quality cameras and mobile devices are also available to the public and can be easily ordered from retailers – this could potentially make everyone part of the security system. According to sociologist David Lyon, new surveillance systems have become a major social institution that affects social relationships, people’s identities, personal space, freedom, and dignity. Data images are considered as the “looking glass” that provides social judgements about “who we are”. Finally, despite of increasing identity theft, spying, selling of personal information, and other technological invasion many people see the benefits of surveillance outweighing the risks. Although it is unequally distributed, new surveillance, in fact, both have its positive and negative

This paper will be structured as follows. Section 2 will cover a basic overview of the rise of social media through the past few years and the government’s use of social media for surveillance. Section 3 will cover an Utilitarian and Kantian ethical view on the use of government surveillance on the social media of local citizens. Section 4 will cover the social impact and views that citizens may have about the surveillance of their social media accounts. Lastly Section 5 will cover the global impact of surveying social media accounts.

In current American society, the concept of data collection and monitoring is ever-present, leading one to agree that we live in a surveillance society. Tamara Dinev’s article, "Internet Users’ Beliefs about Government Surveillance – The Role of Social Awareness and Internet Literacy," defines internet surveillance as: “Historically, the concept of surveillance is often associated with activities carried out by government agencies. However, the identification, collection, ordering, and categorization of personal information carried out by marketers in the private sector can also be regarded as surveillance” (275). Dinev explains the use of internet surveillance from tasks such as acquiring knowledge about consumer preferences for commercial purposes to prevention of crime and terrorist activities. Dinev also asserts that, “The prevalence of monitoring and

Data surveillance is a way for government and special agency to collect personal information from different sources or monitoring people’s daily life activities. Data surveillance is the far cheapest and yet the easiest way to have control over people and its popularity increasis mildly in different fields (Ethicapublishing 1). Data surveillance can be used to observe people’s actions or examine their situations. An article called “Ethical Issues of Data Surveillance” states that every item we use or every action we do in our daily life is being tracked down by government since 1980s. In today’s world government uses surveillance techniques to have control over their

Since the birth of the internet, mankind has experienced unprecedented growth in knowledge and capabilities. For almost 40 years, this intricate realm of digital information has flung open the gates of change and empowered individuals in ways never before imagined. However, in line with nearly everything revolutionary, such an invention has also knocked the lid clean off of Pandora’s box. Criminals and terrorists alike have exploited the far-reaching platform of the internet to conduct their illicit business. In response, national governments have established numerous security programs in pursuit of these targets. Consequently, each program has presented itself as more intrusive than the previous by expanding government outreach through various data collection methods. Such actions have raised issues regarding privacy intrusion among numerous other factors of dehumanization that, until the recent years, have largely been ignored by the public eye. To be clear, the use of government surveillance in it of itself is necessary and acceptable. However, the lack of regulation and public transparency in the recent decades have resulted in intelligence agencies overstepping their jurisdiction along with an overall loss of focus in regards to identifying the enemy. In other terms, government surveillance, when left unchecked by the people, can and will result in the invalidation of natural rights.

Surveillance is ubiquitous in societies that depend on communication and information technologies for administration and control processes (Lyon, 1). Anyone who uses new media are subject to checking, monitoring and scrutinizing; it is near impossible to find an arena free from listening, watching or tracking (Lyon, 2). Some suggest that not doing anything criminal means they ought to have no concerns with or that they are not interesting enough as an individual to be worth surveying (Buettner, 2015) However, most internet users are unaware of their transparency and the volume of surveillance they generate in their online behaviour (Wall, 344) Surveillance occurs in other new media also, biometrics fingerprinting, iris scanning, face recognition software and data-collection. Lyon suggests, these technological developments and worldwide economic restructuring, along with the commercialisation of the internet has lead to both localisation and globalisation of surveillance (Lyon, 3) This essay will discuss its ubiquity, three key purposes of surveillance, social, commercial and state/or government surveillance and how the law manages.