Video Surveillance and the Right of Access
The empirical proof of panoptical asymmetries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12729764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Rothmann (0000-0001-8049-9697, University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 222-238 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Surveillance & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-7487 • E-ISSN: 1477-7487 |
| Publisher | Surveillance Studies Network (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.24908/ss.v15i2.6029 |
| OpenAlex | W2612074642 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The interdisciplinary study presented here is about visual power relations in urban settings under video surveillance and the empirical assessment of one’s right of access to personal data as a central feature of privacy regulation. Referring to Garfinkel’s methodical approach of “breaching experiments”, a series of so-called subject access requests according to Austrian data protection law are carried out, with an overall number of 29 private video operators examined. The empirical focus lies on the immediate reaction of the data controllers and their formal way of handling and responding to such requests. The research shows that the subjective right of access is largely refused and undermined, with a series of strategies of denial to be identified. The legally grounded entitlement to access one’s personal data ultimately appears socially illegitimate and mostly not exercisable. The normative figure of the Panopticon shows up in the monitored routines of everyday life
Computer security · Denial · Empirical research · Entitlement (fair division · Epistemology · Everyday life · Focus (optics · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Normative · Panopticon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subject access · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Psychology · Public Administration and Political Analysis · Social Psychology
The Maximum Surveillance Society
Studies in ethnomethodology
Tear down the walls
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
Discipline and Punish
The Culture of Control
Der Sinnhafte Aufbau der Sozialen Welt
Watching the Watchers and McLuhan's Tetrad
Webcams, TV Shows and Mobile phones
Hijackers and humble servants
Counter-surveillance as Political Intervention
Social Media
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |