Privacy & Surveillance
DTEM 4440 Summer 2018 Syllabus
A good booklet on how many of our fundamental technologies work is McNamee et al, How the Internet Works: A guide for policy-makers. European Digital Rights. Also check out Julien Hopkins: How to Define Social Media – An Academic Summary.
Week 1 History & Theories of Privacy & Surveillance
Readings week one
Galič, M., Timan, T., & Koops, B. J. (2017). Bentham, Deleuze and beyond: An overview of surveillance theories from the panopticon to participation. Philosophy & Technology, 30(1), 9-37. PDF on BB
John, N. A., & Peters, B. (2017). Why privacy keeps dying: the trouble with talk about the end of privacy. Information, Communication & Society, 20(2), 284-298. PDF on BB
Wacks, R. (2015). Privacy: A very short introduction. OUP Oxford. Chapter 2 PDF on BB
Warren, S. D., & Brandeis, L. D. (1890). The Right to Privacy. Harvard Law Review, 193-220. PDF on BB
Supplemental
Check out The Privacy Paradox from Note to Self. Its a series of 5 letters which include tips and a short podcast explaining the science, psychology, and tech behind each challenge.
Ferenstein (2014) The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images. Medium
Pearson J (2017 Digital Surveillance Is Class Warfare MotherBoard
Madden et al (2017) Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans Data&Society
Eubanks (2014) Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities.
Videos of interest
Jill Lepore: Our evolving attitudes toward surveillance, secrets, and privacy – The New Yorker Festival
The Secret History of American Surveillance
An Introduction to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish – A Macat Sociology Analysis
PHILOSOPHY – Michel Foucault
https://youtu.be/0ZHm3vkavgM
The Toilet An unspoken History
Does Reality TV Affect Our View On Surveillance? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Daniel Solove: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear?
History of a Public Controversy: Government Surveillance
Week 2 Body
Readings week two
Allen, A. (2011). Unpopular privacy: what must we hide?. Oxford University Press. Chap 3. PDF on BB
de Casanova, E. M., & Webb III, C. L. (2017). A Tale of Two Hoodies. Men and Masculinities, 20(1), 117-122. PDF on BB
Doe, G. (2014). With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce. Vox. 9 September, https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-gave-my-parents-the-gift-of-divorce-23andme
Maddox, T. (2015). The dark side of wearables: How they’re secretly jeopardizing your security and privacy. TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-dark-side-of-wearables-how-theyre-secretly-jeopardizing-your-security-and-privacy/
Singer, R. W., & Perry, A. J. (2015). Wearables: The Well-Dressed Privacy Policy. Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, 27(7), 24. PDF on BB
Winet, E. D. (2012). Face-Veil Bans and Anti-Mask Laws: State Interests and the Right to Cover the Face. Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev., 35, 217. PDF on BB
Supplemental
Oscapella, E. (2012). Genetic Privacy and Discrimination: An Overview of Selected Major Issues. https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/2012-BCCLA-Report-Genetic-Privacy1.pdf
Krimsky, S. & Johnston, D. C. (2017) Ancestry DNA Testing and Privacy: A Consumer Guide. Council for Responsible Genetics http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/img/Ancestry-DNA-Testing-and-Privacy-Guide.pdf
Shepard (2016) 5 reasons why surveillance is a feminist issue Gender IT
Bedoya (2016) The Color of Surveillance Slate
Interesting Videos
John Berger: Ways of Seeing, Episode 1 (1972)
John Berger: Ways of Seeing, Episode 2 (1972)
John Berger: Ways of Seeing, Episode 3 (1972)
John Berger: Ways of Seeing, Episode 4 (1972)
Surveillance and Race Online | Simone Browne at MozFest
Week 3 Home
Readings week three
Newell, B. C., Metoyer, C. A., & Moore, A. D. (2015). Privacy in the Family. Social Dimensions of Privacy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 104. PDF on BB
Shapiro, S. (1998). Places and spaces: The historical interaction of technology, home, and privacy. The Information Society, 14(4), 275-284. PDF on BB
Sicari, S., Rizzardi, A., Grieco, L. A., & Coen-Porisini, A. (2015). Security, privacy and trust in Internet of Things: The road ahead. Computer networks, 76, 146-164. PDF on BB
Waddell, K. (2016) The Privacy Problem with Digital Assistants, The Atlantic, May 24 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/the-privacy-problem-with-digital-assistants/483950/
Supplemental
ACLU Know Your Rights When Encountering Law Enforcement https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_toolkit_file/kyr_english_3.pdf
Farb, R. L. (2002). The fourth amendment, privacy, and law enforcement. Popular Government, 13-19. http://sogpubs.unc.edu/electronicversions/pg/pgspr02/article2.pdf
Stanley, J., Crump, C., & Speech, A. C. L. U. (2011). Protecting Privacy From Aerial Surveillance (Vol. 6, No. 6). American Civil Liberties Union. (December 2011). https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/protectingprivacyfromaerialsurveillance.pdf
Wald, C. (2016) The secret history of ancient toilets, p 456-458. PDF on BB
Weingart, K. (2015) An Interview with Photographer Arne Svenson, PetaPixel, May 16. https://petapixel.com/2015/03/16/interview-with-photographer-arne-svenson/
Astor (2017) Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Shared. New York Times
Week 4 City
Readings week four
Cuador, C. (2016). From Street Photography to Face Recognition: Distinguishing between the Right to Be Seen and the Right to Be Recognized. Nova L. Rev., 41, 237. PDF on BB
Miles, M. (2015). Photography, Privacy and the Public. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 11(2), 270-293. PDF on BB
Reidenberg, J. R. (2014). Privacy in public.U. Miami L. Rev., 69, 141. PDF on BB
Smith, S. & Low, S. M. (2006). “Introduction: The Imperative of Public Space,” Pp 1-30, in Low, S., & Smith, N. (Eds.). The politics of public space. Routledge. PDF on BB
Siegel, L., Perry, R. A., & Gram, M. H. (2006). Who’s watching? Video camera surveillance in New York City and the need for public oversight. A Special Report by the New York Civil Liberties Union. PDF on BB
Tucker, J. (2012). Eye on the street: photography in urban public spaces. Radical History Review, 2012(114), 7-18. PDF on BB
Van Zoonen, L. (2016). Privacy concerns in smart cities. Government Information Quarterly, 33(3), 472-480. PDF on BB
Supplemental
Baldwin, P. C. (2014). Public privacy: Restrooms in American cities, 1869–1932. Journal of Social History, 48(2), 264-288. PDF on BB
Cavoukian, A. (2013). Surveillance, then and now: Securing privacy in public spaces. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. PDF on BB
Find a POPs Privately owned public spaces in New York https://apops.mas.org/find-a-pops/
Mensel, R. E. (1991). “Kodakers Lying in Wait”: Amateur Photography and the Right of Privacy in New York, 1885-1915. American Quarterly, 43(1), 24-45. PDF on BB
Németh, J. (2009). Defining a public: The management of privately owned public space. Urban Studies, 46(11), 2463-2490. PDF on BB
Thomas, E. (2016). The Privacy Case for Body Cameras: The Need for a Privacy-Centric Approach to Body Camera Policymaking. Colum. JL & Soc. Probs., 50, 191. PDF on BB
Walz, C. & Brookins, D. S. (2016) Privacy in Public? A Look at Recent Efforts to Recognize Privacy Protections in Public Spaces, Communications Lawyer, Summer 2016. PDF on BB
Victor (2016) Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition. The New York Times
Feeney (2017) When It Comes to Surveillance, Watch the Watchmen. New York Times
The Surveillance Firm Recording Crimes From Baltimore’s Skies
Week 5 Cyberspace
Readings week five
Lyon, D., & Trottier, D. (2013). Key features of social media surveillance. In Fuchs et al Internet and Surveillance (pp. 109-125). Routledge. PDF on BB
Marwick, A. E. (2012). The public domain: Social surveillance in everyday life. Surveillance & Society, 9(4), 378. PDF on BB
Rainie, L. (2016). The state of privacy in post-Snowden America. Pew Research Center FactTank (Sept. 2016). URl: http://www.pewresearch.org/facttank/2016/09/21/the-state-of-privacy-in-america
Patton, D. U., Brunton, D. W., Dixon, A., Miller, R. J., Leonard, P., & Hackman, R. (2017). Stop and Frisk Online: Theorizing Everyday Racism in Digital Policing in the Use of Social Media for Identification of Criminal Conduct and Associations. Social Media+ Society, 3(3). PDF on BB
Supplemental
Smith, A., & Anderson, M. (2018). Social media use in 2018. Pew Research Center http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-in-2018/
Social Networks https://www.eff.org/issues/social-networks
Surveillance Technologies https://www.eff.org/issues/mass-surveillance-technologies
Locational privacy https://www.eff.org/issues/location-privacy
Mobile Devices https://www.eff.org/mobile-devices
Couldry (2016) The price of connection: ‘surveillance capitalism’ The Conversation
Kim, D. (2014) Social Media and Academic Surveillance: The Ethics of Digital Bodies, Model View Culture
Weinberg, J. (2017) The Real Costs of Cheap Surveillance. The Conversation
Online Privacy: How Did We Get Here? | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios
The Power of Privacy – documentary
Big Data and the Algorithmic Citizen
Spy Merchants – Al Jazeera Investigations