Privacy and anti-surveillance advocacy: the role/challenge of issue salience

IF 1.6 Q2 ETHICS
S. Oduro-Marfo
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Purpose The proliferation of surveillance-enhancing laws, policies and technologies across African countries deepens the risk of privacy rights breaches, as well as the risks of adverse profiling and social sorting. There is a heightened need for dedicated advocacy and activism to consistently demand accountability and transparency from African states, governments and their allies regarding surveillance. The purpose of this paper is to understand the issue frames that accompany anti-surveillance and privacy advocacy in Ghana and the related implications. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative and interpretivist approach, the author focuses on three different surveillance-oriented incidents/programs in Ghana and analyzes the frames underpinning the related advocacy and narratives of various non-state actors. Findings Privacy and anti-surveillance advocacy in Ghana tends to be less framed in the context of privacy rights and is more driven by concerns about corruption and value for money. Such pecuniary emphasis is rational per issue salience calculations as it elevates principles of economic probity, transparency and accountability and pursues a high public shock value and resonance. Practical implications Economics-centered critiques of surveillance could be counterproductive as they create a low bar for surveillance promoters and sustains a culture of permissible statist intrusions into citizens’ lives once economic virtues are satisfied. Originality/value While anti-surveillance and privacy advocacy is budding across African countries, little is known about its nature, frames and modus compared to such advocacy in European and North American settings. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is likely the first paper or one of the first dedicated fully to anti-surveillance and advocacy in Africa.
隐私和反监视倡导:问题突出性的作用/挑战
目的加强监控的法律、政策和技术在非洲国家的扩散加深了侵犯隐私权的风险,以及负面分析和社会分类的风险。更需要专门的宣传和行动主义,不断要求非洲国家、政府及其盟友在监控方面承担责任和提高透明度。本文的目的是了解加纳反监视和隐私倡导的问题框架及其相关影响。设计/方法论/方法采用定性和解释主义的方法,作者重点关注加纳三种不同的以监视为导向的事件/计划,并分析了各种非国家行为者的相关宣传和叙述的框架。调查结果加纳的隐私和反监视宣传往往不太涉及隐私权,更多地是出于对腐败和物有所值的担忧。这种金钱上的强调是合理的每个问题的显著性计算,因为它提升了经济廉洁、透明度和问责制的原则,并追求高的公众冲击价值和共鸣。实际含义以经济学为中心的对监控的批评可能会适得其反,因为它们为监控推动者创造了一个低门槛,并在经济美德得到满足后维持了一种允许中央集权主义侵入公民生活的文化。独创性/价值尽管反监视和隐私倡导在非洲国家萌芽,但与欧洲和北美的此类倡导相比,人们对其性质、框架和方式知之甚少。据作者所知,这可能是第一篇或第一篇完全致力于非洲反监视和宣传的论文。
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