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Informationen zum Autor By Juan D. Lindau Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
