Surveillance Mechanisms Benefits

Please read the instructions I unload carefully. Answer three questions and write a page for each question. Note that all the links to the readings are in the instructions, so please read them carefully. Besides, some of these readings are in PDF format, and some are linked to web pages. In general, PDF files are quite long in content. Please do not only analyze short articles linked to web pages, but also analyze documents in PDF format.

Answer all 3 questions. Only use our readings ; do not use outside sources. Please cite (end line citation with the list of sources at the bottom) at the end of the sentence and include a reference list at the end. Do not use more than one newspaper/popular source per answer. 

I am looking for well argued (using evidence) answers.

Each answer should be between a minimum of 1.5 double spaced pages.

1. Using any of our earlier readings, find the definition of surveillance that resonates most with you. Explain why this definition works better than others. Use our readings. Even though it is your preference, this is not an opinion question. It has to be an educated argument based on our readings. Reserve opinion till the very end.

2. The privacy vs. security debate has been hotly since 2001. Using our readings, discuss 3 points in favor of privacy and 3 points in favor of security. Which do you kind more convincing and why?

3. In our readings, the argument is made that corporations are the most eager to collect our personal data because it is profitable. Using our readings, explain how profit could be made from our personal data. Also, discuss what impact this has on our everyday lives and emotions. If you do not feel this affects us, also make sure to back up your arguments.

Reading Resources：

Stuart Armstrong, 2013. “Life in a Fish Bowl” in Aeon

https://aeon(dot)co/essays/the-strange-benefits-of-living-in-a-total-surveillance-state

John Schup: “Schools are spending billions on high-tech security. But are students any safer?”

https://www(dot)nbcnews(dot)com/news/us-news/schools-are-spending-billions-high-tech-security-are-students-any-n875611

Nancy G. La Vigne, Samantha S. Lowry, Joshua A. Markman, and Allison M. Dwyer. “Evaluating the Use of Public Surveillance Cameras for Crime Control and Prevention—A Summary”

https://www(dot)urban(dot)org/sites/default/files/publication/27546/412401-Evaluating-the-Use-of-Public-Surveillance-Cameras-for-Crime-Control-and-Prevention-A-Summary.PDF

Surveillance Monitoring: An Emerging Standard of Care

http://www(dot)24x7mag(dot)com/2015/09/surveillance-monitoring-emerging-standard-care/

William Staples, 2014. “Chapter One: Everyday Surveillance” in Everyday Surveillance.staples.surv.pdf

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David Lyon, 2014. “”The Emerging Surveillance Culture” in Media, Surveillance and Identity: Social Perspectives. emerging surveillance.pdf

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Julie Miller, 2018. “Twenty years later, everything is the Truman Show.”  https://www(dot)vanityfair(dot)com/hollywood/2018/06/truman-show-anniversary-jim-carrey-peter-weir-laura-linney

Barbara Hofer. “Limiting Communication When Sending Kids Off to College”

https://www(dot)huffingtonpost(dot)com/barbara-k-hofer/electronic-tether_b_909270.html

Nick WIngfield. 2016. “Should you spy on your kids?”

https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2016/11/10/style/family-digital-surveillance-tracking-smartphones.html

Tuesday September 11: David Cole and James X. Dempsey, 2006. “The Patriot Act – Unleashing Government Spying, Reducing Oversight,” in Terrorism and the Constitution.

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   (a better version)

Ali Winston, 2018. “Stationed Overseas, but Solving Crimes in New York City” in New York Times. 

https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-intelligence-crime.html

Radley Bralko, 2014. “Surprise! Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations,” in The Washington Post

https://www(dot)washingtonpost(dot)com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/10/29/surprise-controversial-patriot-act-power-now-overwhelmingly-used-in-drug-investigations/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7894d13b9625

A community on the brink: Making sense of 9/11 across generations (you do not need to read the parts on German and Japanese Americans - they are optional).

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Glenn Sulmasy, 2013. “Why we need government surveillance,” (CNN)

https://www(dot)cnn(dot)com/2013/06/10/opinion/sulmasy-nsa-snowden/index.html

Nicole Perlroth et al. 2013.  “N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web”
http://cs340(dot)cs(dot)ua(dot)edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nsa-foils-much-internet-en.pdf

David Sanger and Thom Shanker, 2014. “N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers”
https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html

Charlie Savage, 2013. “N.S.A. Chief Says Surveillance Has Stopped Dozens of Plots”
https://www(dot)nytimes(dot)com/2013/06/19/us/politics/nsa-chief-says-surveillance-has-stopped-dozens-of-plots.html

Please do not be intimidated by the size of the legal document. Most of the actual text takes up 1/2 of a page. Legal documents have to demonstrate evidence and precedent and so you will see that a good portion of the document is footnotes and citations. You do not need to worry about those.

Read up to 527. 
You are not expected to memorize or understand the nuances of the law, but rather to begin to grasp the complexity of it.

Readings:

Mary-Rose Papandrea, 2014. “Leaker traitor whistleblower spy: National security leaks and the first amendment,” in Boston University Law Review
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Harry Litman and Mary Knobler, 2017. “Trump's war on leaks is really a war on whistleblowers.” (CNN)  https://www(dot)cnn(dot)com/2017/08/09/opinions/whistleblowers-opinion-litman-knobler/index.html

Christian Fuchs, “Social Networking Sites in the Surveillance Society” in Media, Surveillance, and Society

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The Economist, 2014. “Stalkers, Inc.” https://www(dot)economist(dot)com/news/leaders/21616953-surveillance-advertising-industrys-new-business-model-privacy-needs-better

Tuesday September 25: Nils Zuwarski. 2014. “Consuming Surveillance: Mediating Control Practices through consumer culture and everyday life” in Media, Surveillance, and Identity.

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From debts to data: (skim this, you don't need to know details, but you do need to understand history/scope): debt to data.pdf

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Media Smarts, “Surveillance: Why worry, if you’ve got nothing to hide?” 

http://mediasmarts(dot)ca/privacy/surveillance-why-worry-if-youve-got-nothing-hide

Videos on Consumerism and surveillance. 

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Lee Humphreys, 2011. “Who's Watching Whom? A Study of Interactive Technology and Surveillance,” in Journal of Communications

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Kate Moran, 2016. “Social Media Natives: Growing Up with Social Networking.”

https://www(dot)nngroup(dot)com/articles/social-media-natives/

Daniel Solove. 2011. “Introduction” and “The National Security Argument” in Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security

https://scholarship(dot)law(dot)gwu(dot)edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2092&context=faculty_publications

John Fleming and Amy Adkins, 2016.“Data Security: Not a Big Concern for Millennials.”

https://news(dot)gallup(dot)com/businessjournal/192401/data-security-not-big-concern-millennials.aspx

 “’You never really know who’s looking’: Imagined surveillance across social media platforms,” in New Media and Society, pp. 1-20.

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Jonathan Margolis, 2017. “Be careful with social media — employers are watching,” in Financial Times 

https://www(dot)ft(dot)com/content/5b8bb3b0-6aca-11e7-b9c7-15af748b60d0

Justin Florence, 2016. “Making the No Fly List Fly: A Due Process Model for Terrorist Watchlists” in Yale Law Review.

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Junichi Semitsu, 2011. “From Facebook to mug shot: How the dearth of social networking privacy rights revolutionized online government surveillance https://heinonline(dot)org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/pace31&div=10&id=&page=,” in Pace Law Review.

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Rachel Sanders, 2016. “Self-tracking in the Digital Era: Biopower, Patriarchy, and the New Biometric Body Projects,” in Body and Society

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Thomas McMullan, 2015. “What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?”

https://www(dot)theguardian(dot)com/technology/2015/jul/23/panopticon-digital-surveillance-jeremy-bentham