DTEM4440-Spring22 Readings & Material

The syllabus is here and the textbook is “I Have Nothing to Hide”: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian

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.

Feb 3               Introduction

Warren & Brandeis: Right to Privacy

Privacy Audit Exercise

Additional Material

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.

This is a great guide by the Electronic Frontier Foundation Reasons Privacy Matters

Pearson J (2017 Digital Surveillance Is Class Warfare MotherBoard

Madden et al (2017) Privacy, Poverty and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor AmericansData&Society

Eubanks (2014) Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KGX-c5BJNFk

Feb 10             A History of Privacy

Readings Westin Chapter 1 in Privacy and Freedom “The Origins of Modern Claims to Privacy” & Igo: Technologies of Publicity

Additional Material

Ferenstein (2014) The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images. Medium

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zuth-_rppKM
https://www.youtube.com/embed/PNNLR7_ZiOQ
https://player.vimeo.com/video/189016018

Nothing to Hide – The documentary about surveillance and you (2017) from NOTHING TO HIDE documentary 2017 on Vimeo.

Feb 17             Bentham, Foucault & the Panopticon

Horne & Maly The Inspection House chapter1

Manokha Surveillance, Panopticism, and Self-Discipline in the Digital Age

Additional material

Conover From GITMO to an American Supermax, The Horrors of Solitary Confinement.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iVFtc9_AB2k
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_rBC56-nLE

Feb 24             Culture, Clothing and the Gaze

Allen: Unpopular Privacy. Chapter 3 Modesty.

Scott Skinner-Thompson Performative Privacy

Bilefsky: France’s Burkini Debate Reverberates Around the World

Additional Material

de Casanova & Webb (2017). A Tale of Two Hoodies

Troy Patterson The Politics of the Hoodie

Shepard (2016) 5 reasons why surveillance is a feminist issue Gender IT

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mrdHVXJTfYk

Mar 3              Bodies and Privacy

Avi Selk The ingenious and ‘dystopian’ DNA technique police used to hunt the ‘Golden State Killer’ suspect

Zimmer et al There s nothing really they can do with this information unpacking how users manage privacy boundaries for personal fitness information

Rani Molla Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences.

Additional Material

Bedoya (2016) The Color of Surveillance Slate

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

Ravenscraft How to Protect Your DNA Data Before and After Taking an at-Home Test

The Daily, New York Times Podcast: A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 1 The Genetic Detectives. & Part 2: The Future of Genetic Privacy

Libby Copeland Who was she?A DNA test only opened new mysteries.

Podcast Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion

Smiley A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect: Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn’t see anything. But her Fitbit did.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/lBwz-Jag1ZE
https://www.youtube.com/embed/o9KbMVY9itw

Mar 10 NO CLASS Mid-Semester Break

Mar 17              Home Privacy and Surveillance

Hansson – The Private Sphere from a Historical and Cultural Perspective.

Barros Home as a Legal Concept

Additional Material

Newell, Metoyer, & Moore (2015). Privacy in the Family.

Munro a & Ruth Madigan Privacy in the private sphere

Shapiro (1998). Places and spaces: The historical interaction of technology, home, and privacy.

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

Weingart, K. (2015) An Interview with Photographer Arne Svenson, PetaPixel, May 16. https://petapixel.com/2015/03/16/interview-with-photographer-arne-svenson/

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RDClWKixyJ8
https://www.youtube.com/embed/kxv22ImgCv0

Mar 24            Smart Homes and Digital Devices

Doty Oxymorons of privacy and surveillance in “smart homes”

Pridmore et al Intelligent Personal Assistants and the Intercultural Negotiations of Dataveillance in Platformed Households

Additional Material

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/

Astor (2017) Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Shared. New York Times

Smart talking: are our devices threatening our privacy? – podcast

https://www.youtube.com/embed/V3ImhoI5YhU
https://www.youtube.com/embed/aNziZoT97V4
https://www.youtube.com/embed/_JmMu-FPW54
https://www.youtube.com/embed/POHYyP4EbzE

Mar 31            City Surveillance & Control by Design

Hendrix et al (2018) The Eyes of Law Enforcement in the New Panopticon: Police-Community Racial Asymmetry and the Use of Surveillance Technology

Braun et al Security and privacy challenges in smart cities

Van Zoonen (2016). Privacy concerns in smart cities.

Additional Material

Baldwin, P. C. (2014). Public privacy: Restrooms in American cities, 1869–1932. Journal of Social History, 48(2), 264-288.

Cavoukian, A. (2013). Surveillance, then and now: Securing privacy in public spaces. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. 

Datatilsynet (2016) Tracking in Public Spaces: The use of WiFi, Bluetooth, beacons and intelligent video analytics.

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. 

Németh, J. (2009). Defining a public: The management of privately owned public space. Urban Studies, 46(11), 2463-2490. 

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. 

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. 

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

EFF Surveillance Self Defense

Podcast: The Crime Machine, Part I | Reply All – Gimlet Media

Podcast: The Crime Machine, Part II | Reply All – Gimlet Media

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wRa-AucbN6k
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0oJqJkfTdAg
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OQ5LnY21Hgc

Apr 7               Protest and Control

Ullrich & Knopp Protesters’ reactions to video surveillance of demonstrations- counter-moves, security cultures, and the spiral of surveillance and counter-surveillance

Madison & Klang  Recognizing Everyday Activism: Understanding Resistance to Facial Recognition

Additional Material

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9YV5-AdC6q0

Apr 14             Government online Surveillance

Additional Material

https://www.youtube.com/embed/SCmKJyVx9AY
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qdq4le5hcRU

Apr 21             Surveillance Capitalism – a new theory?

Zuboff The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism

Cinnamon Social Injustice in Surveillance Capitalism

Additional Material

Rabb What Is Surveillance Capitalism?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/FcADchWhwUk
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hIXhnWUmMvw
https://www.youtube.com/embed/2s4Y-uZG5zk

Apr 28             Social Surveillance, Social Media

Hernández-Santaolalla & Hermida Malicious Social Surveillance and Negative Implications in Romantic Relationships among Undergraduates

Mols & Pridmore When Citizens Are “Actually Doing Police Work”: The Blurring of Boundaries in WhatsApp Neighbourhood Crime Prevention Groups in The Netherlands

Additional Material

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_hX1r2Tbv5g

May 5              The Road ahead and closing