Surveillance & Society最新文献_第8页

Surface Tensions: Skate-Stoppers and the Surveillance Politics of Small Spaces 表面张力:滑冰者和小空间的监视政治

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15430

Duncan McDuie‐Ra, Jason Campbell

{"title":"Surface Tensions: Skate-Stoppers and the Surveillance Politics of Small Spaces","authors":"Duncan McDuie‐Ra, Jason Campbell","doi":"10.24908/ss.v20i3.15430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i3.15430","url":null,"abstract":"Skate-stoppers are ubiquitous objects installed on outdoor surfaces in built environments all over the world. Skate-stoppers are an essential part of low-tech security of urban surfaces at a micro-scale—a single bench, handrail, or ledge—with the sole-purpose of protecting these surfaces from skateboarders. As such skate-stoppers are an extension of human and electronic surveillance systems, though in many patches of the urban landscape, skate-stoppers are a low-cost substitute for more sophisticated technologies. This interplay of control and liberation draws attention to surfaces in urban space and specific tactics adopted to secure and protect them through surveillance. In this article, we explore the criticality of skate-stoppers and tactics for removing them to advance the study of surveillance of small spaces. We argue that skate-stoppers are aggressive attempts to control urban space by interrupting the flow of bodies and boards along particular surfaces, namely the “spots” desired by skateboarders. Second, we argue that the installation of skate-stoppers has shifted from reaction to anticipation of skateboarders, and new construction projects now come with skate-stoppers already installed as part of surveillance infrastructure. Third, we argue that skateboarders have become adept at liberating spots from skate-stoppers, restoring flow to surfaces through both organised activism and covert acts, underscoring the limitations of surveillance using objects. We conclude with some thoughts on the disjuncture between the embrace of creative cities and the proliferation of skate-stoppers, suggesting creative play and its desired affective properties are regulated by the control of surfaces in the same spaces.","PeriodicalId":237043,"journal":{"name":"Surveillance & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124328739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

Smart Cities as “Big Brother Only to the Masses”: The Limits of Personal Privacy and Personal Surveillance 智慧城市是“大众的老大哥”:个人隐私与个人监控的极限

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15759

Masa Galic

{"title":"Smart Cities as “Big Brother Only to the Masses”: The Limits of Personal Privacy and Personal Surveillance","authors":"Masa Galic","doi":"10.24908/ss.v20i3.15759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i3.15759","url":null,"abstract":"Smart city projects in Europe and North America are employing a novel approach to data analysis that processes hardly any or no personal data at all. As such, these projects—at least, for the most part—escape the scope of (European) data protection law. The idea behind this new approach to smartness can be condensed in the statement: “smart cities are only Big Brother to the masses.” In other words, if the data collected within smart city projects do not identify any individuals, then there are no issues with privacy and data protection law. This problematic assumption relies on two reductive understandings of key notions in this context: that of “personal privacy” and “personal surveillance.” In this contribution, I focus on the latter and call for a broader understanding of surveillance as a set of diverse modes of social control by privacy law scholars. After all, in order to reveal the underlying dynamics of power and how these might lead to surveillance abuse—even, or especially, when surveillance is based on the processing of seemingly non-personal data—concrete surveillance practices and their logics need to be examined. For this purpose, I take the example of the Stratumseind Living Lab in the Netherlands and examine it through the lens of Foucault’s notion of security. This examination leads to two valuable insights for privacy and data protection law scholars. First of all, it strengthens the argument of contemporary group privacy scholars that a narrow focus on individual privacy and surveillance is inadequate and that the regulatory framework needs to be adapted. The second insight raises another broad issue: smart cities, which function according to the securitizing logic of surveillance, such as the Stratumseind Living Lab, are transforming public spaces into consumption spaces. Yet, the protection of privacy in public can and should serve to protect key aspects of public space—political participation and sociability—as well.","PeriodicalId":237043,"journal":{"name":"Surveillance & Society","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129557987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

From Privacy to Social Legibility 从隐私到社会易读性

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15762

Lisa M. Austin

引用次数: 3

Data and the Good? 数据和好处?

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15764

Daniel Susser

引用次数: 0

From Banal Surveillance to Function Creep: Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in Denmark 从平庸的监视到功能蠕变:自动车牌识别(ALPR)在丹麦

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15000

Gabriel Pereira, C. Raetzsch

{"title":"From Banal Surveillance to Function Creep: Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) in Denmark","authors":"Gabriel Pereira, C. Raetzsch","doi":"10.24908/ss.v20i3.15000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v20i3.15000","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses how Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) has been implemented in Denmark across three different sectors: parking, environmental zoning, and policing. ALPR systems are deployed as a configuration of cameras, servers, and algorithms of computer vision that automatically reads and records license plates of passing cars. Through digital ethnography and interviews with key stakeholders in Denmark, we contribute to the fields of critical algorithm and surveillance studies with a concrete empirical study on how ALPR systems are configured according to user-specific demands. Each case gives nuance to how ALPR systems are implemented: (1) how the seamless charging for a “barrier-free” parking experience poses particular challenges for customers and companies; (2) how environmental zoning enforcement through automated fines avoids dragnet data collection through customized design and regulation; and (3) how the Danish Police has widened its dragnet data collection with little public oversight and questionable efficacy. We argue that ALPR enacts a form of “banal surveillance” because such systems operate inconspicuously under the radar of public attention. As the central analytic perspective, banality highlights how the demand for increasing efficiency in different domains makes surveillance socially and politically acceptable in the long run. Although we find that legal and civic modes of regulation are important for shaping the deployment of ALPR, the potential for function creep is embedded into the very process of infrastructuring due to a lack of public understanding of these technologies. We discuss wider consequences of ALPR as a specific and overlooked instance of algorithmic surveillance, contributing to academic and public debates around the embedding of algorithmic governance and computer vision into everyday life.","PeriodicalId":237043,"journal":{"name":"Surveillance & Society","volume":"35 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131338855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Goodbye to Publications, or Confessions of a Privacy Law Scholar 告别出版物，还是隐私法学者的自白

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15751

Bert-Jaap Koops

引用次数: 0

Review of Connellan, Due, Riggs, and Bartholomaeus. 2021. Home and Away: Mothers and Babies in Institutional Spaces 《Connellan, Due, Riggs and bartholomeus评论》2021。主场与客场:机构空间中的母亲与婴儿

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.15669

Kate I. Duffy

引用次数: 0

(Un)Seeing as Care or Control: The Collection of Race-Identified COVID-19 Data (Un)将其视为护理或控制:收集种族识别的COVID-19数据

Surveillance & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.24908/ss.v20i3.14689

S. Oduro-Marfo, Jessica Percy-Campbell, Lynn Ng Yu Ling