Computers and the Surveillance Society

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Computers and the Surveillance SocietyIntroduction to ComputingCatherine DwyerDept. of Information TechnologySeidenberg SchoolSpring 2014

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Computers and Surveillance“Our chapter … is written in lightof the fact that computer-enabled data collection, aggregation and mining dramatically change the nature of contemporary surveillance.” Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum, in Privacy, Due Process, and the Computational Turn, 2013

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Critical functionalities for surveillanceData collectionAggregationMining

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Role of computingSoftware code – allows data

collection to be automatedNetworks – allows separate data

sources to be collected and integrated

Mining – “Big Data” uses advanced algorithms and statistical modeling to extract information from unstructured sources

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CIS ComponentsMaterial on BlackboardIntroduction to coding

(JavaScript)Data analysis (Excel)Internet and Web (HTML)

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Internet of Things

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Facebook app permissions

“record audio at any time without your confirmation”

“read your contacts”

“take pictures and video without your confirmation”

“read your text messages (SMS or MMS)”

“directly call phone numbers”“read call log”

“write (modify) call log”

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Friday, January 24 – 2:15 pm

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At 2:25 pm

At 2:20 pm

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2:30 pm gmail down becomes a meme

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And a marketing opportunity

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For next classRead Introduction in JavaScript

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