Lect 3 - Dataveillance and Snowden Revelations Flashcards
What is Roger Clarke’s reading called?
“The Digital Persona and its application To Data Surveillance”
What is Roger Clark’s definition of dataveillance?
use of personal data in an investigation or monitoring the actions or communications of one person
How is dataveillance facilitated today?
dataveillance has been facilitated by the increased use of digital and electronic technologies. such as social networking sites and text messaging
how does roger clarke describe a ‘digital persona’?
a model of an individual established through collection, storage, and analysis about that person
define formal and informal digital persona?
Formal - things that we do not create (such as our SIN number, health care number,… etc) that we input into websites
Informal- stuff that we create (such as who we are online, who we follow online and what we say online) that can be observed about our behaviour and personality online
People often have several digital personas (eg. two facebook accounts for friends and family). What is the concern with this?
By creating several digital personas we are opening ourselves up for various new forms of surveillance about who we are
in what ways does a digital persona affect someones daily life?
Someones digital persona can become like a voodoo doll of them. Anything done or said by the digital persona will affect them in their daily lives because people assume who you are online is who are you are as a person
Dataveillance can we described as not about monitoring physical bodies, but data about those bodies. What kinds of action does this enable?
It can enable
- invasions of privacy
- convert operations
- denial due to process
- abuses of power
- the creation of repressive pressures
Briefly describe NSA’s “Program”
Who: the government of the united states and NSA (national security agency of america)
What: NSA created a top secret dataveillance (collection of data) program that allows the government to spy on american citizens and foreign peoples as a response to terrorist threats
Where: In the United States
When: 2004ish till now
Why: to prevent another terrorist attack
How: collection of content and meta data from everyone (including citizens) of the united states through the help of the NSA
What is the difference between Content Data and Meta Data?
content data: what you sent someone. For example: texts/pictures/emails you sent, the language you used…etc
meta data: who you sent it to, what you’ve read from others
Describe the importance of Edward Snowden?
Edward Snowden used to work for the NSA as an engineer and managed to steal very top secret files from them that explain The Program and flee to Russia. He contacted several journalists to meet up with him out of the country so he could publicly leak the files to them and the rest of america.
How do internet companies like google and Facebook comply with the NSA?
- They hand over as much information as possible (to the NSA)
- They collect this information (dataveillance) and use it for advertising purposes (create a data double of us)
What do internet companies claim about the information they collect on their users? What is the truth?
Internet companies like google (and the NSA) said that users should have nothing to worry about because only computer softwares can look and access the information and not actual people.
This isn’t true because the NSA and internet companies have people involved with the collection and storage of information
