Zusammenfassung
Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual is an investigation into the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, and especially the wide-spread practice of mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. The book argues that the quest for prediction, certainty, and control lying at the heart of the state’s security apparatus destroys an essential component of human dignity and fundamentally undermines liberalism.
The book begins with a discussion of the rise of the digital age and the historical import of this development. Subsequent chapters of the book examine different cultural understandings of privacy, the philosophical discussion of its centrality to human existence, and the form and extent of its legal protection. Lindau explores the reasons behind the rise of mass state surveillance, the modest legal restraints governing its use, and its deployment against activists, protestors, and dissidents and its impact on individuals and on privacy. The book then turns to a discussion of the rise of “surveillance capitalism” and, because this is not just—or even primarily—a U.S. phenomenon, examines the political, social, and other impacts of social media around the world. The book includes a case study discussing the global use of surveillance during the Covid-19 pandemic and the implications of this development before concluding with reflections on the relationship between mass surveillance and liberalism.
The book will appeal equally to readers across the social sciences and philosophy, and to students in courses on privacy, surveillance, and democracy. Lindau expertly explores the social, political, and economic consequences of digitization and one of its essential features – the appropriation and “mining” of ever large troves of personal information. The book primarily focuses on the experience of the United States but includes a comparative cross-national and cross-regional analysis and a discussion of the link between different regime types and state surveillance.
Schlagworte
Social Media Facebook Google Privacy Amazon Machine Learning Digital technology COVID-19 pandemic facial recognition personhood national security US Foreign Policy Drug Trade Surveillance capitalism US Patriot Act Digital surveillance FISA FISC Mass state surveillanceKeywords
human rights migrants surveillance refugees digital age- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 269–290 Conclusion and Epilogue 269–290
- 291–308 Index 291–308
- 309–309 About the Author 309–309
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- „... 101Chapter 6The Legal Architecture Governing Mass State Surveillance in the United States ...” „... Governing Mass State Surveillance in the United States 103fruit of a tawdry effort to cover up malfeasance ...” „... Architecture Governing Mass State Surveillance in the United States 105This committee subsequently became known ...”
- „... Surveillance 77Chapter 6: The Legal Architecture Governing Mass State Surveillance in the United States 101 ...” „... Mass-Surveillance Practices 157Chapter 10: Representative Examples of State Surveillance around the World 175 ...” „... mass state surveillance on a scale previously unknown in human history.In a world that combined ...”
- „... surveillance tries to see everything, including the most intimate. The state agents who conduct mass ...” „... of the population accepts the state’s claims that mass surveil-lance and secrecy promote the common ...” „... , including mass, warrantless surveillance, undertaken in the name of security. In the United States, despite ...”
- „... Mass-Surveillance Practices 159NATIONALISM, MILITARISM, AND STATE SURVEILLANCEThe narratives underpinning a ...” „... digital problems discussed above.Circumscribing mass state digital surveillance will be particularly ...” „... 157Chapter 9Global Digital Mass-Surveillance PracticesThe use of mass digital surveillance as a ...”
- „... precise contours of British mass surveillance or learn about the activities of the state’s national ...” „... relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, has serious implications for mass surveil-lance ...” „... use of unrestrained and coercive state powers conjoined with mass surveillance. As Tyson Barker writes ...”
- „... of “digital” techniques—that is, mass surveillance—“used in the fight against terror” to confront the ...” „... feared that the pandemic could become another critical moment in the development of mass surveillance ...” „... information while the approach developed after 9/11 used mass 248 Chapter 13 surveillance to find malign ...”
- „... growing state surveillance—concerns about terrorism, crime, and a raft of other real and perceived ...” „... 121Chapter 7Features of State Surveillance in the United StatesAlthough patriotic motives and a ...” „... genuine belief that mass surveillance enhances security animates the architects of this practice ...”
- „... problem-atic features as well. States for the first time gained the capacity to engage in the mass surveillance ...” „... SURVEILLANCEWhile many in the US government tacitly support mass surveillance and facilitated its expansion, most do ...” „... ” everybody. Even surveillance states like the German Democratic Republic at the height of the Cold War had to ...”
- „... protec-tion at all from US mass surveillance; this made them skeptical about US assurances that the government ...” „... surveillance and its consequences for individual pri-vacy, freedom, and agency, all states, as has been ...” „... history truly mass surveillance has been made possible with these tools, enabling the construction of an ...”
- „... surveillance. Everywhere, refugees and migrants are subject to the greatest surveillance. States gather and ...” „... states to construct a collective surveillance regime. For example, shortly after the 2001 terrorist ...” „... , accelerating their transfor-mation into illiberal polities.Surveillance activities in the United States related ...”
- „... dominate the practice of mass surveillance, metadata mining, and other state practices—even though this ...” „... of a privacy right is Judge Richard Posner, whose views on mass surveillance were discussed in the ...” „... advocates of mass surveillance repeat this claim, as they did about torture, despite the absence of evidence ...”
- „... platforms.Even though mass surveillance produces novel forms of information inequality and enhances the power of ...” „... normalization of mass surveillance will be the result of elite action rather than grassroots activity. NGOs ...” „... the intrusion of fear into one’s properly private world.The advocates of mass surveillance and data ...”
- „... governments that engage in mass surveillance and other indis-criminate violations of privacy. States cite ...” „... is little evidence that mass surveillance has played a central role in uncovering ter-rorist plots ...” „... and scope of state power and the existence of a space protected from external intrusions. As Daniel ...”
- „... been teaching about state secrecy and surveillance since 2003, when it became evident that mass ...” „... surveillance constituted a core, defining feature of the information age and the reaction to 9/11. In addition ...”
- „... 201Chapter 11The Rise of Surveillance CapitalismAlthough the power that states acquire over ...” „... surreptitious tools, including mass surveillance, collection, data mining, and behavioral manipulation to ...” „... individuals through digital intru-sions is especially consequential, corporate surveillance deepens ...”
- „... ’ informa-tion in the United States, given that US surveillance laws did not protect the privacy of foreigners ...” „... things worse.The United States, given the extent of its diminished social trust and its early and ...” „... disappear, as they have in an increasing number of public fora in the United States, animosity begins to ...”