Why privacy matters (1)
Recently, a friend asked me to explain why privacy matters. That’s the question, right, on which a critique of surveillance must be built?
In response to that question, I intend to use the next few entries here to offer a (non-critical, at least initially) summation of what others out there, including bloggers, journalists, and a few wayward Supreme Court Justices, have to say about privacy & surveillance.
I start with Big Brother State’s well produced, though largely atheoretical, animation on surveillance.
In the video, surveillance is explained in two ways.
The first figuration is associated with politicians “assigned to security matters today,” who might, if you’d ask them, justify surveillance technologies and techniques as integral strategies of crime deterrence and prevention. Closed circuit camera systems, it seems, win over the hearts and minds of would-be criminals. Trusted computing keeps the nasty internet-transmitted-diseases off your computer. And police surveillance of emails and phone calls allows the cops to catch the bad guys.
“It would probably all sound great, because the idea is that you should start thinking of these techniques as cream of the crop. But let’s face the not quite so obvious, but nonetheless omnipresent downside of all this.”
Public cameras allow police to keep a database of “all of your” (read: anyone’s) movements.
Airline securities - record keeping on passengers & biometrics - allow the secret services of many nations to produce records of all passengers. These records could potentially include “explicit” information, including eye color, fingerprints, and a “high-resolution picture of your face,” all of which is “information you would usually expect to be taken from suspected criminals.” (You’re not a suspected criminal, are you? Because if you are…)
Trusted computing prevents the computer user from deciding what programs should be installed on their own machine.
Finally, and most dramatically, the police could potentially access your emails and phone calls to obtain information … that you, well, might not just want them to access, namely your sexual relations. (The sexual relations are left unspoken, but implied through animation.)
In the film’s conclusion, these forms of repressive law, justified by the “public fear of terror,” are symptomatic of Western society’s transformation into a police state.
Convinced?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Maybe so
Please circle only one, then discuss.
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