Surveillance, Snowden, and Big Data
Capacities, consequences, critique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Lyons (0000-0002-1927-3565, Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Big Data & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2053951714541861 |
| OpenAlex | W2138016069 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 232 |
| References cited | 30 |
The Snowden revelations about National Security Agency surveillance, starting in 2013, along with the ambiguous complicity of internet companies and the international controversies that followed provide a perfect segue into contemporary conundrums of surveillance and Big Data. Attention has shifted from late C20th information technologies and networks to a C21st focus on data, currently crystallized in "Big Data." Big Data intensifies certain surveillance trends associated with information technology and networks, and is thus implicated in fresh but fluid configurations. This is considered in three main ways: One, the capacities of Big Data (including metadata) intensify surveillance by expanding interconnected datasets and analytical tools. Existing dynamics of influence, risk-management, and control increase their speed and scope through new techniques, especially predictive analytics. Two, while Big Data appears to be about size, qualitative change in surveillance practices is also perceptible, accenting consequences. Important trends persist - the control motif, faith in technology, public-private synergies, and user-involvement - but the future-orientation increasingly severs surveillance from history and memory and the quest for pattern-discovery is used to justify unprecedented access to data. Three, the ethical turn becomes more urgent as a mode of critique. Modernity's predilection for certain definitions of privacy betrays the subjects of surveillance who, so far from conforming to the abstract, disembodied image of both computing and legal practices, are engaged and embodied users-in-relation whose activities both fuel and foreclose surveillance
Big data · Computer security · Data science · Internet privacy · Metadata · Panopticon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Big Data Technologies and Applications · Computer Science · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Soziologie des Digitalen - Digitale Soziologie?
An archive of contestation
Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft
Endogenous dynamics of denunciation
Cyber-Crimes and Cyber Laws of Pakistan
Digitale Hochschulbildung
Algorithmic Decision-Making, Spectrogenic Profiling, and Hyper-Facticity in the Age of Post-Truth
The Afterlife of Data
Science Blogs as Critique — Building Public Identities in the Field of Translational Research
Regulatory arbitrage and transnational surveillance
“Veillant Panoptic Assemblage”
Metadata Laws, Journalism and Resistance in Australia
Privacy concerns in China's smart city campaign
Privacy attitudes and behaviors in the age of post-privacy
Media Matter
The emergence of technological tools to control Covid-19
Health Applications of Gerontechnology, Privacy, and Surveillance
The Temporal Dimension of Surveillance
Social Injustice in Surveillance Capitalism
Gerrymandering the National Security Narrative
Civilian Surveillance in the War in Ukraine
Digital Sousveillance
Public Attitudes Towards Government Surveillance of Social Media in Australia
Performing Imperceptibility
Counter-Mapping Surveillance
Panopticism is not Enough
The Snowden Stakes
Pred-Pol-Pov
Game Studies meets Surveillance Studies at the Edge of Digital Culture
The fall of a dry leaf is a warning to the green ones
Wireless Heart Patients and the Quantified Self
EU - China relations and data governance policies
Techno-digital policing
Kollektives Handeln im Internet. Eine akteurtheoretische Fundierung
Lawful Espials
Coordenação como tecnologia de governo
Thinking Through the Materiality of Big Data
Publicising Food
In the name of Development
As apostas de Snowden
Mutating Multitudes, Collective Behavior, and Reinventing a Sociological Specialty
Algorithmic governance
The Big Data Agenda
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence
Communicative Figurations
Critical GIScience
Big Data und Governance im digitalen Zeitalter
Social Network Analysis
Criminal Futures
Provokante Kommunikation
Algorithmuskulturen
Making it Personal
Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance
The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency
Counter-Terrorism, Ethics and Technology
Social Computing and the Law
Strategic opportunities (and challenges) of algorithmic decision-making
Constructing a Data‐Driven Society
Datafied at four
Markets and the Arts of Attachment
Medienpädagogik im Lichte | im Schatten digitaler Daten. Manteltext
Big Tech as World Makers
Tor
Virtual sovereignty? Private internet capital, digital platforms and infrastructural power in the United States
Surveillance and the power of platforms
Population and Civil Registration as the Spearhead of Inclusive and Effective Domestic Governance
Censorship and Surveillance in the Digital Age
Making Data Visualizations, Contesting Security
The sensitive nature of facial recognition
General theory of data, artificial intelligence and governance
Entre os (Muitos) Sentidos de Big Data
The Changing Structure of Leak-Based Investigative Journalism in the Context of Digital Surveillance and Privacy
Out of Proportion? On Surveillance and the Proportionality Requirement
Data as capital and ethical implications in digital sport business models
Developing an Online Data Ethics Module Informed by an Ecology of Data Perspective
Structural Logic of AI Surveillance and Its Normalisation in the Public Sphere
Privacy, Values and Machines
Self-interest and data protection drive the adoption and moral acceptability of big data technologies
Public attitudes towards surveillance and privacy of personal communications in 34 African countries
Note socio-giuridiche introduttive per una discussione su diritto, intelligenza artificiale e big data
The state is watching you—A cross-national comparison of data retention in Europe
Shadowing ‘the exceptional’ behind the ‘ordinary’
Reassurance and pride
The relationship between online political participation and privacy protection
Technology and organised crime in the smart city
Reading The Good Deed Through Biopolitical Governance
AI and data-driven urbanism
Information Ownership and Materiality in an Age of Big Data Surveillance
A Proposal to Adopt Data Discrimination Rather than Privacy as the Justification for Rolling Back Data Surveillance
Governing humans and ‘things’
Digital citizens? Data traces and family life
Democratic curiosity in times of surveillance
Governing others
Contested visions
From Bulletin Boards to Big Data
Big Data technologies in criminal investigations
Data feminism and border ethics
Multi-centred governance and circuits of power in liberal modes of security
Whose data? Problematizing the ‘gift’ of social labour
Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data
The Parable of Google Flu
Dataveillance and Countervailance
When Google got flu wrong
Tense theory
Transparent Lives
Social Media as Surveillance
Security
The Surveillance-Industrial Complex
Le profilage des populations
Big data and human geography
Big Data Surveillance
Neoliberal Deviants and Surveillance
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance
The daily you
(In)visibility Before Privacy
Liquid Surveillance
Critical Questions for Big Data
The surveillant assemblage
Coming to Terms with Chance
Theorizing Surveillance
The Governmental Topologies of Database Devices
A New Algorithmic Identity
Data Derivatives
The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Security and the Claim to Privacy
The Politics of Privacy in the Age of Preemptive Security
| Unique citing works | 232 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 19,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 191 |