Secrets and Lies
The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13009076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carly Nyst (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | State Crime Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/statecrime.7.1.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2893865400 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
As new technologies upend traditional power structures grounded in an information asymmetry between the state and its populace, governments are finding new ways to entrench state secrecy and inhibit individual secrecy. The global migration of everyday activities to the online realm is being met by surveillance technologies and techniques which have turned the Internet into a virtual panopticon. As states seek to legitimize the extension of surveillance into almost every realm of public and private lives, they are constructing legal frameworks that embed technical capabilities in layers of secrecy and opacity, rolling back hard-won legal protections and removing surveillance from the jurisdiction of accountability and redress mechanisms. This article focuses on the multiple layers of human rights violations inflicted by modern state spycraft. First, the inhibition of the enjoyment of rights such as privacy, free association, speech and opinion, and second, the deprivation of citizens from access to information, redress and the ability to engage in legislative and democratic debates on an even playing field
Accountability · Democracy · Internet privacy · Jurisdiction · Law and economics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Realm · Redress · Secrecy · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Freedom of Expression and Defamation · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
| Citations per year | 0.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |