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Surveill
Surveill
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In 2021, are we actively complicit in the erosion of our
private lives?
Does our every action/transaction/reaction online
become data capital for others – individuals,
corporations, government agencies?
How much of our private lives reside online?
How permanent is our digital footprint?
And should we care?
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Surveillance and the Gaze:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOCLIrB-0c
Labhaoise Ni Fhaolain, consultant at law firm DAC
Beachcroft in Dublin says:
“Short of ‘airgapping’ (disconnecting from the
internet) your entire life, it is impossible to be
completely insulated from the possibility of being
surveilled.” (2019)
The 2009 Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act, covers
tracking devices, however………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQyZgqiokE
Increased surveillance of consumption practices:
social sorting of consumers into differentiated
categories
more sophisticated marketing techniques
encouraging the act of conspicuous consumption
increased all over control of consumer environments.
What reasons can we find to explain the proliferation
of surveillant texts, technologies and practices within
popular culture?
(Reality TV Shows; surveillant cinema; Facebook,
Twitter, home web-cams, mobile phone cameras,
dash cams, Google street view )
In examining possible explanations or speculations
what hypotheses might we draw about the nature of
contemporary culture, identity, pleasures?
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Can we argue that these are significant shifts and in
what ways might these shifts or changes be
understood? Liberatory? Exploitative? Complex
combinations?
Discuss!!!
One argument is that current forms of popular
culture are designed to progressively normalize
surveillance, instil an intuitive acceptance of all other
forms of surveillance : state, corporate, organisational.
It has been suggested that what is needed now is a
new ‘digital social contract’ between citizens,
businesses and government
Individuals need to take more control by making
GDPR data access requests to find out where their
data ‘sits’
Irish Council for Civil Liberties as well as Digital
Rights Ireland have called for a ‘super surveillance
watchdog’ to oversee all state surveillance activities
Former Chief Justice, John Murray reviewed gaps in
the law, focusing on the retention of and access to
communications data held by service providers
His 190 page report (2017) found that current data-
retention legislation amounts to “mass surveillance”
of the entire population and in breach of European
law
The Commission on Law Reform has stated it will
“give priority to examining how technology in the
digital era has affected traditional views of privacy”.
Critics argue that privacy doesn’t matter to children
who were raised in a wired celebrity culture that
promises a niche audience for everyone.