Juan D. Lindau

Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual

Power and Privacy in the Digital Age

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, especially mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. Lindau argues that the quest for prediction, certainty, and control at the heart of the state's security apparatus destroys an essential component of human dignity and fundamentally undermines liberalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781538173510
• ISBN-10: 1538173514
• Artikelnr.: 64961813

Autorenporträt

Juan D. Lindau is professor of Political Science at Colorado College. He primarily teaches courses on Comparative Politics and Latin American Politics and actively participates, outside the department, in the History/Political Science major and the International Political Economy major. His primary scholarly interests are the drug war, migration, and the impact of the internet and digital technology on politics. He has written articles and essays for Political Science Quarterly and for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Foro Internacional, and for the International Political Science Review as well as for a number of edited collections. He is the author of La elite gobernante mexicana (Mexico D.F.: Joaquin Mortiz, 1993) and co-editor, with Timothy Cheek, of Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). In addition, with Curtis Cook, he edited Aboriginal Right and Self-Government: The Canadian Experience in North American Perspective (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2000). He has received the Lloyd E. Worner Teacher of the Year award and the A.E. and Ethel Irene Carlton Professorship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Transition from the Industrial to the Digital Age
Additional Reasons for the Failure to Confront the Consequences of the
Digital Age
New Configurations of Power in the Digital Age
The Emergence of New Digital Economic Identities
The Impact of the Internet on Political and Associational Activity
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Interdisciplinary Discussions of Privacy and its Loss
Socio-cultural Understandings of Privacy
Rationalization for the Loss of Privacy in the Digital Age
The "I Have Nothing to Hide Rationalization"
The "I Am Irrelevant" Rationalization
The Trump Rationalization
Public Defenders of Mass Surveillance
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Philosophical Debates About Privacy
Arguments About Privacy's Subsidiarity to Other Rights and Interests
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Privacy as a Legal and Constitutional Right
The Fourth Amendment and Privacy
The Legal and Constitutional Protection of Privacy in Other Countries
International Law and Privacy
Conclusion
Chapter 5: National Security and the Expansion of Digital Surveillance
National Security and State Surveillance
State Constituencies Favoring Surveillance in the United States
The Left and the Right and Mass Surveillance
Conclusion
Chapter 6: The Legal Architecture Governing Mass State Surveillance
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
EO 12333
Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act
The Snowden Revelations and the USA FREEDOM Act
Additional Legal Decisions Restricting Surveillance in the United States
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Features of State Surveillance in the United States
The U.S. Government's Policing of the World Wide Web and the Growth of the
Surveillance Industrial Complex
A Typical Example of the Fruits of the Surveillance Industrial Complex:
Facial Recognition
Another Example of a Flourishing Surveillance Industrial Complex Project:
Cloud Surveillance
The Role of Higher Education in State Surveillance
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Surveilling the Most Vulnerable: The State and Refugees,
Migrants, Dissidents and Minorities
State Surveillance of African Americans Other Ethnic Minorities and a
Variety of Dissidents
Contemporary FBI Surveillance of Other Non-Violent Dissidents
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Global Digital Mass Surveillance Practices
Nationalism, Militarism and State Surveillance
The Understandings Embedded in Smart Cities/Safe Cities Initiatives
A Case Study: The Drug War and State Surveillance in Latin America
Conclusion
Chapter 10: Representative Examples of State Surveillance Around the World
China
Russia
India
Israel
The United Kingdom
France
Germany
Brazil
Mexico
Nigeria
South Africa
Thailand
Vietnam
Conclusion
Chapter 11: The Rise of "Surveillance Capitalism"
Google/Alphabet
Facebook/Meta
Amazon
Terms and Conditions and the Exploitation of an Obsolete Regulatory
Environment
Corporate Surveillance and Workers
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Conspiracy Theories and Other Impacts of the Social Media
Platforms
Social Media, the QAnon Conspiracy Theory and the Spread of Misinformation
about the COVID-19 Pandemic
Social Media, Conspiracy Theories, and the January 6, 2021 Riot in the U.S.
Capitol
Facebook's Impact on Politics in the Global South
The Rise of Objections to the Social Media Companies
Conclusion
Chapter 13: Surveillance Tools and the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Case Study
Concerns about Pandemic Surveillance
The Bio-Surveillance Approach to COVID-19 in the West
Other Western Democracies
The East Asian and Chinese Approaches to Bio-Surveillance During the
Pandemic
Other Examples
Limits on the Efficacy of Tracking and Tracing Apps on Cell Phones
Conclusion
Chapter 14: Conclusion and Epilogue
The Continued Expansion of State Surveillance
Surveillance and Politics
The Continuing Acceptance of Corporate Surveillance Despite the Growth of
Criticism
Regulatory Remedies to "Surveillance Capitalism" at the End of the Second
Decade of the Digital Age
The Technology Companies and Antitrust Measures
Epilogue